Northwestern takes the belt, 14–7, on the road at Notre Dame.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern took the belt here, ending Notre Dame’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #76) and starting reign #77. It lasted 378 days and 9 defenses, until Notre Dame took it on November 21, 1936.
For Northwestern this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 1–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Northwestern visited Notre Dame on November 9, 1935, and defeated the Irish 14-7 in the regular season. With this victory on the road, Northwestern took possession of the College Football Belt from Notre Dame.
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 20637) · This game in the downloadable dataset