Yale defends the belt, 35–0, at home over Trinity (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 308 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Yale went on to defend it 9 more times before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (CT) this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 7th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 6–0; all-time Yale leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Trinity (CT) 35-0 on September 26, 1903. As the belt holder, Yale successfully defended its 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 3703) · This game in the downloadable dataset