Yale defends the belt, 22–0, at home over Springfield.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 322 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Yale went on to defend it 5 more times before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Springfield this was its 3rd 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 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0; all-time Yale leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt on October 10, 1903, defeating Springfield 22-0 at home in week 5 of the regular season. The victory allowed Yale to retain the lineal 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 3820) · This game in the downloadable dataset