Yale defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 312 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Yale went on to defend it 10 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 10th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 9–0; all-time Yale leads 10–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale hosted Amherst on October 2, 1901, in a regular season matchup. Yale won 6-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 2941) · This game in the downloadable dataset