Yale defends the belt, 3–0, at home over Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 713 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Yale went on to defend it 2 more times before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its 3rd 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 3rd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Trinity (CT) on November 13, 1878, winning 3-0 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 85) · This game in the downloadable dataset