Notre Dame takes the belt, 28–0, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame took the belt here, ending Penn State’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #54) and starting reign #55. It lasted 42 days and 5 defenses, until Carnegie Mellon took it on November 27, 1926.
For Notre Dame this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Penn State leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Penn State 28-0 on October 16, 1926 in South Bend, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Nittany Lions.
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 14799) · This game in the downloadable dataset