Yale defends the belt, 64–0, on the road at Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 700 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Yale went on to defend it 10 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Trinity (CT) on October 24, 1889, in week 5 of the regular season. Trinity (CT) defeated Yale 64-0. Yale was defending the belt heading into the game and retained it 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 610) · This game in the downloadable dataset