Columbia defends the belt, 12–6, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Columbia came in 278 days into reign #73, which began with a win over Stanford, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Columbia went on to defend it 1 more time before Navy took it on October 20, 1934, 292 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 22nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Columbia visited Yale on October 6, 1934, in a regular season matchup. Yale won 12-6, but Columbia held onto the 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 19578) · This game in the downloadable dataset