Yale defends the belt, 45–0, at home over Bowdoin.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 326 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Yale went on to defend it 6 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Bowdoin this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Bowdoin and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt on October 16, 1901, defeating visiting Bowdoin 45-0 to retain the title.
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 3020) · This game in the downloadable dataset