Yale defends the belt, 30–0, at home over Orange A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 350 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Yale went on to defend it 1 more time before Harvard took it on November 23, 1901, 364 days after the reign began.
For Orange A.C. this was its 5th 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.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–0; all-time Yale leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Orange A.C. on November 9, 1901, winning 30-0 to retain the championship.
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 3137) · This game in the downloadable dataset