Yale defends the belt, 10–0, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 359 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Yale went on to defend it 24 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 7th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 6–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 10-0 on November 21, 1891, in the ninth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Yale retained the lineal championship 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 945) · This game in the downloadable dataset