Washington & Jefferson takes the belt, 20–6, on the road at Carnegie Mellon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington & Jefferson took the belt here, ending Carnegie Mellon’s run of 322 days and 3 defenses (reign #56) and starting reign #57. It lasted 364 days and 7 defenses, until Duquesne took it on October 13, 1928.
For Washington & Jefferson this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Carnegie Mellon and Washington & Jefferson have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Washington & Jefferson defeated Carnegie Mellon 20-6 on October 15, 1927, in the fifth week of the regular season. With this victory on the road, Washington & Jefferson claimed the College Football Belt from Carnegie Mellon.
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 15369) · This game in the downloadable dataset