Washington State defends the belt, 13–0, on the road at Oregon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington State came in 7 days into reign #87, which began with a win over Oregon State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Washington State went on to defend it 3 more times before Texas A&M took it on December 6, 1941, 42 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
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
Washington State visited Oregon on November 1, 1941, in a regular season matchup. Oregon won 13-0. Washington State entered as the belt holder 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 24631) · This game in the downloadable dataset