Yale defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 730 days into reign #9, which began with a win over Harvard, with 28 defenses already behind it; this was its 29th defense. It was the last defense: Princeton took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 28, 1889.
For Harvard this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 6th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 6-0 on November 23, 1889. As the defending belt holder, Yale retained the lineal championship 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 671) · This game in the downloadable dataset