Carnegie Mellon takes the belt, 19–0, at home over Notre Dame.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carnegie Mellon took the belt here, ending Notre Dame’s run of 42 days and 5 defenses (reign #55) and starting reign #56. It lasted 322 days and 3 defenses, until Washington & Jefferson took it on October 15, 1927.
For Carnegie Mellon this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Carnegie Mellon leads 2–0.
About this game
Carnegie Mellon defeated Notre Dame 19-0 on November 27, 1926. With this victory, Carnegie Mellon took the College Football Belt from Notre Dame.
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 15105) · This game in the downloadable dataset