Washington State takes the belt, 7–0, at home over Oregon State.
AP poll, week 6: Oregon State No. 16 at Washington State unranked · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington State took the belt here, ending Oregon State’s run of 14 days and 0 defenses (reign #86) and starting reign #87. It lasted 42 days and 4 defenses, until Texas A&M took it on December 6, 1941.
For Washington State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Oregon State and Washington State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Washington State defeated Oregon State 7-0 on October 25, 1941, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Beavers in a regular season matchup.
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 24568) · This game in the downloadable dataset