Yale retains the belt after a 5–5 tie with Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 343 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Yale went on to defend it 2 more times before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 2–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army visited Yale on November 2, 1901, in a week 7 regular season matchup that ended in a 5-5 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Yale retained the championship as the holder.
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 3108) · This game in the downloadable dataset