Syracuse defends the belt, 13–0, at home over Navy Transport.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 357 days into reign #39, which began with a win over Brown, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Syracuse went on to defend it 2 more times before Michigan took it on November 16, 1918, 378 days after the reign began.
For Navy Transport this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Navy Transport and Syracuse have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Syracuse defended the belt at home against Navy Transport on October 26, 1918, winning 13-0 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 10316) · This game in the downloadable dataset