Notre Dame defends the belt, 21–0, at home over Drake.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 35 days into reign #55, which began with a win over Penn State, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. It was the last defense: Carnegie Mellon took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 27, 1926.
For Drake this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Notre Dame leads 2–0.
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Drake 21-0 on November 20, 1926, in the regular season. Notre Dame was the defending belt holder and 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 15058) · This game in the downloadable dataset