Yale defends the belt, 10–5, at home over Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 336 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Yale went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–0; all-time Yale leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home on October 26, 1901, defeating Columbia 10-5 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Yale retained possession of the belt.
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 3078) · This game in the downloadable dataset