Yale defends the belt, 22–0, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 329 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Yale went on to defend it 5 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 4th 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 2–0.
About this game
On October 19, 1901, Yale defeated Penn State 22-0 at home in week 5 of the regular season. Yale was the belt holder and successfully defended the title with the victory.
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 3047) · This game in the downloadable dataset