Princeton takes the belt, 1–0, at home over Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Princeton took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 728 days and 10 defenses (reign #3) and starting reign #4. It lasted 1,451 days and 25 defenses, until Harvard took it on November 18, 1882.
For Princeton this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1–1; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Princeton defeated Yale 1-0 on November 28, 1878, in this regular season matchup played in Princeton. With the victory, Princeton took possession of the College Football Belt from Yale.
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 90) · This game in the downloadable dataset