Northwestern defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Minnesota.
AP poll, week 6: Minnesota No. 1 at Northwestern No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern came in 357 days into reign #77, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Northwestern went on to defend it 2 more times before Notre Dame took it on November 21, 1936, 378 days after the reign began.
For Minnesota this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Minnesota and Northwestern have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Northwestern defeated Minnesota 6-0 on October 31, 1936, in the seventh week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Northwestern retained the championship 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 21285) · This game in the downloadable dataset