Navy retains the belt after a 7–7 tie with Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 301 days into reign #100, which began with a win over Army, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Princeton took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 6, 1951.
For Yale this was its 23rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Yale visited Navy on September 29, 1951, in a regular season week 3 matchup that ended in a 7-7 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Navy successfully defended the belt by holding it through the draw.
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 30285) · This game in the downloadable dataset