Syracuse defends the belt, 35–0, at home over Hobart.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 308 days into reign #48, which began with a win over Nebraska, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Syracuse went on to defend it 5 more times before West Virginia Wesleyan took it on November 8, 1924, 350 days after the reign began.
For Hobart 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 Hobart and Syracuse have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Syracuse defended the college football belt at home against Hobart on September 27, 1924, winning 35-0 to retain the title in week 2 of the regular season.
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 13418) · This game in the downloadable dataset