Army takes the belt, 9–3, at home over Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 329 days and 4 defenses (reign #29) and starting reign #30. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Harvard took it on October 29, 1910.
For Army this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 2–0–1; all-time Yale leads 2–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defeated Yale 9-3 on October 15, 1910, taking the College Football Belt from the visitors in this regular season matchup. The belt, which passes to whoever defeats its current holder on the field, moved to Army with this 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 6785) · This game in the downloadable dataset