Ohio State defends the belt, 3–0, on the road at Wisconsin.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 21 days into reign #41, which began with a win over Michigan, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Illinois took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 22, 1919.
For Wisconsin this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ohio State leads 6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State traveled to Wisconsin on November 15, 1919, and won 3-0 to retain the College Football Belt in week 9 of the regular season.
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 10956) · This game in the downloadable dataset