Yale defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 357 days into reign #17, which began with a win over Harvard, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. It was the last defense: Harvard took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 23, 1901.
For Princeton this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before.
It was the 19th of 23 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 7–5–6; all-time Princeton leads 9–8–6. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the College Football Belt at home against Princeton on November 16, 1901, winning 12-0. Yale retained the belt 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 3164) · This game in the downloadable dataset