Yale defends the belt, 70–0, on the road at Williams.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 720 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 25 defenses already behind it; this was its 26th defense. Yale went on to defend it 3 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Williams this was its 3rd 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 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Williams on November 13, 1889, in week 8 of the regular season. Williams won 70-0. As the belt's defending champion, 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 647) · This game in the downloadable dataset