Yale defends the belt, 42–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 695 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Yale went on to defend it 11 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 10–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on October 19, 1889, defeating visiting Amherst 42-0. Yale retained the belt with the victory.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 609) · This game in the downloadable dataset