Northwestern defends the belt, 26–18, at home over Wisconsin.
AP poll, week 6: Wisconsin unranked at Northwestern No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern came in 364 days into reign #77, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Northwestern went on to defend it 1 more time before Notre Dame took it on November 21, 1936, 378 days after the reign began.
For Wisconsin this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Northwestern leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Northwestern defeated Wisconsin 26-18 on November 7, 1936, in week 8 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Northwestern retained the lineal 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 21362) · This game in the downloadable dataset