West Virginia Wesleyan takes the belt, 7–3, on the road at Syracuse.
Where this game sits in the lineage
West Virginia Wesleyan took the belt here, ending Syracuse’s run of 350 days and 6 defenses (reign #48) and starting reign #49. It lasted 343 days and 7 defenses, until Lehigh took it on October 17, 1925.
For West Virginia Wesleyan this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Syracuse and West Virginia Wesleyan have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
West Virginia Wesleyan visited Syracuse on November 8, 1924, and defeated the home team 7-3 in a regular season game. With the victory, West Virginia Wesleyan took possession of the College Football Belt from Syracuse.
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 13824) · This game in the downloadable dataset