Yale defends the belt, 27–0, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 329 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Yale went on to defend it 3 more times before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0; all-time Yale leads 2–0.
About this game
Yale defeated Penn State 27-0 on October 17, 1903 in New Haven. As the defending belt holder, 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 3877) · This game in the downloadable dataset