Northwestern defends the belt, 32–13, at home over Wisconsin.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern came in 7 days into reign #77, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Northwestern went on to defend it 8 more times before Notre Dame took it on November 21, 1936, 378 days after the reign began.
For Wisconsin this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Wisconsin led the belt series 1–0; all-time Northwestern leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Northwestern defeated Wisconsin 32-13 on November 16, 1935, in week 9 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Northwestern retained the College Football 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 20702) · This game in the downloadable dataset