Syracuse defends the belt, 53–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 372 days into reign #39, which began with a win over Brown, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. It was the last defense: Michigan took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 16, 1918.
For Brown this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Syracuse led the belt series 1–0; all-time Syracuse leads 2–0.
About this game
Syracuse, defending the belt, defeated Brown 53-0 on November 10, 1918 to retain the College Football 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 10403) · This game in the downloadable dataset