Columbia takes the belt, 7–0, at a neutral site over Stanford.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Columbia took the belt here, ending Stanford’s run of 51 days and 2 defenses (reign #72) and starting reign #73. It lasted 292 days and 2 defenses, until Navy took it on October 20, 1934.
For Columbia this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Columbia and Stanford have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Stanford traveled to a neutral site to face Columbia on January 1, 1934, in a postseason matchup. Columbia won 7-0, taking the College Football Belt from Stanford on the field.
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 19444) · This game in the downloadable dataset