Yale defends the belt, 19–0, at home over Tufts.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 312 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Yale went on to defend it 8 more times before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Tufts this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 6 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 3–0; all-time Yale leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On September 30, 1903, Yale defeated visiting Tufts 19-0 in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Yale kept 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 3718) · This game in the downloadable dataset