Yale defends the belt, 17–0, at home over Tufts.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 319 days into reign #29, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Yale went on to defend it 1 more time before Army took it on October 15, 1910, 329 days after the reign began.
For Tufts this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 6 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 4–0; all-time Yale leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defended the belt at home against Tufts on October 5, 1910, winning 17-0 to retain the championship.
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 6732) · This game in the downloadable dataset