Yale defends the belt, 24–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 319 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Yale went on to defend it 8 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 26th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 18th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 17–0; all-time Yale leads 20–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Wesleyan (CT) on October 9, 1901, winning 24-0 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 2983) · This game in the downloadable dataset