Chicago takes the belt, 3–0, at home over Wisconsin.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Chicago took the belt here, ending Wisconsin’s run of 371 days and 7 defenses (reign #43) and starting reign #44. It lasted 343 days and 3 defenses, until Princeton took it on October 28, 1922.
For Chicago this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Wisconsin led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
On November 19, 1921, Chicago defeated Wisconsin 3-0 at home in a regular season matchup. With this victory, Chicago took the College Football Belt from Wisconsin.
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 12059) · This game in the downloadable dataset