Yale defends the belt, 25–0, at home over Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 343 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Yale went on to defend it 1 more time before Princeton took it on November 14, 1903, 357 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated visiting Columbia 25-0 on October 31, 1903, in week 8 of the regular season. Yale was the defending belt holder and 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 3960) · This game in the downloadable dataset