Yale defends the belt, 23–0, at home over Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 308 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Yale went on to defend it 11 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 6th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 5–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt against Trinity (CT) on September 28, 1901, winning 23-0. The belt remained with Yale.
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 2927) · This game in the downloadable dataset