Yale defends the belt, 19–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 364 days into reign #11, which began with a win over Princeton, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Yale went on to defend it 23 more times before Princeton took it on November 30, 1893, 1,099 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 16th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–4–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Princeton on November 26, 1891, winning 19-0. 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 957) · This game in the downloadable dataset