Northwestern defends the belt, 18–7, at home over Iowa.
AP poll, week 3: Iowa unranked at Northwestern No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Northwestern. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern came in 329 days into reign #77, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Northwestern went on to defend it 6 more times before Notre Dame took it on November 21, 1936, 378 days after the reign began.
For Iowa this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–1; all-time it is 1–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Northwestern defended the belt at home against Iowa on October 3, 1936, winning 18-7 to retain the championship.
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 21000) · This game in the downloadable dataset