Yale defends the belt, 2–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 702 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Yale went on to defend it 4 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 10 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 10–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated visiting Amherst 2-0 on November 2, 1878. As the belt's defending 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 79) · This game in the downloadable dataset