Yale defends the belt, 22–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 312 days into reign #29, which began with a win over Harvard, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Yale went on to defend it 3 more times before Army took it on October 15, 1910, 329 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 30th 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 20th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 19–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Wesleyan (CT) on September 28, 1910, winning 22-0. 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 6680) · This game in the downloadable dataset