Yale defends the belt, 24–0, on the road at Navy.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 322 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Yale went on to defend it 7 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Navy this was its 3rd 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 Yale leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Yale traveled to Navy on October 12, 1901, in week 4 of the regular season. Navy won the game 24-0, but Yale retained the 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 3011) · This game in the downloadable dataset