Yale defends the belt, 52–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 723 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 26 defenses already behind it; this was its 27th defense. Yale went on to defend it 2 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1889, 735 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 13th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 12–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Wesleyan (CT) traveled to Yale on November 16, 1889, in week 8 of the regular season. Yale dominated the contest, winning 52-0 to retain the college football 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 657) · This game in the downloadable dataset