Yale takes the belt, 32–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 364 days and 13 defenses (reign #10) and starting reign #11. It lasted 1,099 days and 36 defenses, until Princeton took it on November 30, 1893.
For Yale 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 15th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 4–4–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Princeton 32-0 on November 27, 1890, in New Haven. With this victory, Yale took possession of the College Football Belt from Princeton.
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 798) · This game in the downloadable dataset