Notre Dame defends the belt, 6–0, on the road at Northwestern.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 7 days into reign #55, which began with a win over Penn State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 4 more times before Carnegie Mellon took it on November 27, 1926, 42 days after the reign began.
For Northwestern this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Notre Dame leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame defended the belt on October 23, 1926, defeating Northwestern 6-0 in South Bend. The victory allowed Notre Dame to retain the lineal championship.
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 14854) · This game in the downloadable dataset