Notre Dame takes the belt, 26–6, at home over Northwestern.
AP poll, week 6: Northwestern No. 7 at Notre Dame No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame took the belt here, ending Northwestern’s run of 378 days and 9 defenses (reign #77) and starting reign #78. It lasted 329 days and 3 defenses, until Carnegie Mellon took it on October 16, 1937.
For Notre Dame this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Notre Dame leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Northwestern 26-6 on November 21, 1936, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Wildcats.
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 21490) · This game in the downloadable dataset