Yale defends the belt, 12–6, at home over Syracuse.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 315 days into reign #29, which began with a win over Harvard, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Yale went on to defend it 2 more times before Army took it on October 15, 1910, 329 days after the reign began.
For Syracuse this was its 3rd 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 hosted Syracuse on October 1, 1910, in a regular season matchup. Yale won 12-6, retaining 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 6726) · This game in the downloadable dataset