Yale defends the belt, 17–5, on the road at Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 336 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Yale went on to defend it 2 more times before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 1–0–1; all-time Yale leads 2–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale traveled to face Army on October 24, 1903, in a regular season matchup. Army won the game 17-5, but Yale retained the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 3920) · This game in the downloadable dataset