Yale defends the belt, 30–0, at home over Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 707 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Yale went on to defend it 7 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on October 31, 1889, defeating Stevens 30-0 in New Haven. The shutout victory allowed Yale to retain the belt.
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 622) · This game in the downloadable dataset