Yale defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Holy Cross.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale came in 322 days into reign #29, which began with a win over Harvard, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. It was the last defense: Army took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 15, 1910.
For Holy Cross this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
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 defended the College Football Belt at home against Holy Cross on October 8, 1910, winning 12-0 to retain the belt.
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 6781) · This game in the downloadable dataset