Yale defends the belt, 1–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 716 days into reign #3, which began with a win over Princeton, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Yale went on to defend it 1 more time before Princeton took it on November 28, 1878, 728 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 10–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on November 16, 1878, defeating visiting Amherst 1-0. 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 88) · This game in the downloadable dataset