Yale defends the belt, 30–0, at home over Syracuse.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 350 days into reign #19, which began with a win over Harvard, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. It was the last defense: Princeton took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 14, 1903.
For Syracuse this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Yale leads 2–0.
About this game
Yale defeated visiting Syracuse 30-0 on November 7, 1903 in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending 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 4003) · This game in the downloadable dataset