Yale defends the belt, 28–0, at home over Springfield.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 321 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Yale went on to defend it 31 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Springfield this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on October 14, 1891, defeating visiting Springfield 28-0. The belt remained with Yale after the shutout 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 845) · This game in the downloadable dataset