Saint Mary's (CA) takes the belt, 20–12, on the road at Fordham.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Saint Mary's (CA) took the belt here, ending Fordham’s run of 357 days and 7 defenses (reign #63) and starting reign #64. It lasted 357 days and 7 defenses, until Olympic Club took it on November 7, 1931.
For Saint Mary's (CA) 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 Fordham and Saint Mary's (CA) have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On November 15, 1930, Saint Mary's (CA) visited Fordham and won 20-12, taking the College Football Belt from the home team. The victory marked a transfer of the lineal championship on the field in the tenth week of the 1930 regular season.
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 17340) · This game in the downloadable dataset