Yale retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 373 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Yale went on to defend it 5 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 3rd of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton visited Yale on December 8, 1877, in a Week 6 regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Yale retained the championship as the holder.
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 72) · This game in the downloadable dataset