Yale defends the belt, 28–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 307 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Yale went on to defend it 35 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 14th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 13–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on September 30, 1891, defeating visiting Wesleyan (CT) 28-0. The victory allowed Yale to retain the belt.
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 807) · This game in the downloadable dataset