Yale defends the belt, 70–0, on the road at Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 716 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 23 defenses already behind it; this was its 24th defense. Yale went on to defend it 5 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 2–0.
About this game
Yale traveled to Cornell on November 9, 1889, in a regular season matchup where Cornell dominated with a 70-0 victory. Despite the lopsided loss, Yale retained the College Football 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 643) · This game in the downloadable dataset