Syracuse takes the belt, 6–0, on the road at Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse took the belt here, ending Brown’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #38) and starting reign #39. It lasted 378 days and 7 defenses, until Michigan took it on November 16, 1918.
For Syracuse this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Syracuse leads 2–0.
About this game
Syracuse visited Brown on November 3, 1917, and defeated the belt holder 6-0. With this victory, Syracuse claimed the College Football Belt from Brown.
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 10053) · This game in the downloadable dataset