Syracuse defends the belt, 10–6, on the road at Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 336 days into reign #48, which began with a win over Nebraska, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Syracuse went on to defend it 1 more time before West Virginia Wesleyan took it on November 8, 1924, 350 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Syracuse leads 2–0.
About this game
On October 25, 1924, Syracuse visited Penn State in a regular season matchup. Syracuse won 10-6 and retained 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 13690) · This game in the downloadable dataset