Washington & Jefferson defends the belt, 14–0, on the road at Lafayette.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington & Jefferson came in 7 days into reign #57, which began with a win over Carnegie Mellon, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Washington & Jefferson went on to defend it 6 more times before Duquesne took it on October 13, 1928, 364 days after the reign began.
For Lafayette this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Lafayette and Washington & Jefferson have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Washington & Jefferson traveled to Lafayette on October 22, 1927, as the defending belt holder. The visitors won 14-0, retaining the 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 15420) · This game in the downloadable dataset