Yale defends the belt, 36–0, on the road at Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 314 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 33 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to Trinity (CT) on October 7, 1891, in a regular season matchup. Trinity (CT) defeated Yale 36-0. As the belt holder, Yale's loss to Trinity (CT) meant Yale relinquished 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 824) · This game in the downloadable dataset