Yale defends the belt, 13–0, on the road at Stevens.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 359 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Yale went on to defend it 6 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Stevens this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to face Stevens on November 24, 1877, in a regular season matchup. Stevens defeated Yale 13-0. As the belt's defending champion, 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 71) · This game in the downloadable dataset