Stanford defends the belt, 20–10, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 7: Washington No. 12 at Stanford No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 14 days into reign #85, which began with a win over USC, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Stanford went on to defend it 5 more times before Oregon State took it on October 11, 1941, 350 days after the reign began.
For Washington this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Washington leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford hosted Washington on November 9, 1940, in a regular season matchup. Stanford won 20-10 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending holder.
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 24050) · This game in the downloadable dataset