Yale defends the belt, 38–0, at home over Lehigh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 338 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Yale went on to defend it 29 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Lehigh this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Lehigh and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on October 31, 1891, defeating visiting Lehigh 38-0. Yale retained the belt with the 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 893) · This game in the downloadable dataset