Yale defends the belt, 29–5, at home over Tufts.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 315 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 9 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Tufts this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 6 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Tufts on October 5, 1901, winning 29-5 to retain the championship.
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 2973) · This game in the downloadable dataset