Yale defends the belt, 2–0, at home over Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 709 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Yale went on to defend it 3 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its 2nd 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 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Trinity (CT) on November 9, 1878, winning 2-0. With the victory, Yale retained 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 84) · This game in the downloadable dataset