Yale defends the belt, 62–0, on the road at Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 702 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 19 defenses already behind it; this was its 20th defense. Yale went on to defend it 9 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Columbia on October 26, 1889, as the belt defender. Columbia won the game 62-0, but Yale retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 617) · This game in the downloadable dataset