Syracuse defends the belt, 34–6, on the road at Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 365 days into reign #39, which began with a win over Brown, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Syracuse went on to defend it 1 more time before Michigan took it on November 16, 1918, 378 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Dartmouth and Syracuse have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Syracuse visited Dartmouth on November 3, 1918, in a regular season matchup. Dartmouth won 34-6. Syracuse entered the game as the belt holder and retained the belt with the 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 10359) · This game in the downloadable dataset