Yale defends the belt, 32–0, on the road at Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 719 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 24 defenses already behind it; this was its 25th defense. Yale went on to defend it 4 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 6th 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 6th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 10–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Amherst on November 12, 1889, defending the College Football Belt. Amherst defeated Yale 32-0, but as the away team, 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 645) · This game in the downloadable dataset