Notre Dame defends the belt, 21–0, at home over Drake.
AP poll, week 3: Drake unranked at Notre Dame No. 12 · No. 1 that week: California. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 315 days into reign #78, which began with a win over Northwestern, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 1 more time before Carnegie Mellon took it on October 16, 1937, 329 days after the reign began.
For Drake this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 1–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 2–0.
About this game
On October 2, 1937, Notre Dame defeated Drake 21-0 at home in a regular season matchup. The victory allowed Notre Dame to retain the College Football Belt.
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 21708) · This game in the downloadable dataset