Wisconsin defends the belt, 3–0, on the road at Chicago.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Wisconsin came in 7 days into reign #43, which began with a win over Illinois, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Wisconsin went on to defend it 6 more times before Chicago took it on November 19, 1921, 371 days after the reign began.
For Chicago this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Wisconsin traveled to Chicago on November 20, 1920, for a regular season matchup in week 9. Wisconsin won 3-0 and retained the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 11538) · This game in the downloadable dataset