Syracuse defends the belt, 26–0, at home over Mercer.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 315 days into reign #48, which began with a win over Nebraska, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Syracuse went on to defend it 4 more times before West Virginia Wesleyan took it on November 8, 1924, 350 days after the reign began.
For Mercer this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Mercer and Syracuse have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Syracuse defended the College Football Belt against visiting Mercer on October 4, 1924, winning 26-0 to retain the title in week 3 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 13495) · This game in the downloadable dataset