Northwestern defends the belt, 9–0, on the road at Michigan.
AP poll, week 6: Northwestern No. 7 at Michigan unranked · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern came in 371 days into reign #77, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. It was the last defense: Notre Dame took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 21, 1936.
For Michigan this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Northwestern visited Michigan on November 14, 1936, in a regular season matchup. Michigan won 9-0. Northwestern was defending the belt heading into the game and retained it 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 21425) · This game in the downloadable dataset