Yale defends the belt, 7–0, at home over Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 356 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 7 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale hosted Trinity (CT) on November 21, 1877, and won 7-0 to retain the college football belt. The victory kept Yale's hold on the lineal championship in the fifth week of the 1877 season.
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 68) · This game in the downloadable dataset