Syracuse takes the belt, 7–0, on the road at Nebraska.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse took the belt here, ending Nebraska’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #47) and starting reign #48. It lasted 350 days and 6 defenses, until West Virginia Wesleyan took it on November 8, 1924.
For Syracuse this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
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 visited Nebraska on November 24, 1923, and defeated the belt holder 7-0. With this victory, Syracuse took possession of 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 13325) · This game in the downloadable dataset