Yale defends the belt, 48–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 352 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Yale went on to defend it 25 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 23rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 5th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt against Pennsylvania on November 14, 1891, winning 48-0. 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 931) · This game in the downloadable dataset