Yale defends the belt, 46–0, at home over Vermont.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 315 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 7 more times before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Vermont this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Vermont and Yale have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Yale defeated Vermont 46-0 on October 3, 1903, in the fourth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Yale retained the championship 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 3761) · This game in the downloadable dataset