Princeton takes the belt, 10–0, at home over Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 735 days and 29 defenses (reign #9) and starting reign #10. It lasted 364 days and 13 defenses, until Yale took it on November 27, 1890.
For Princeton this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 14th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–3–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Yale 10-0 on November 28, 1889, in the tenth week of the regular season. With this victory on the field, Princeton took the College Football Belt from Yale.
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 678) · This game in the downloadable dataset