Pittsburgh takes the belt, 31–7, on the road at Navy.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pittsburgh took the belt here, ending Navy’s run of 28 days and 3 defenses (reign #74) and starting reign #75. It lasted 336 days and 4 defenses, until Notre Dame took it on October 19, 1935.
For Pittsburgh this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Navy and Pittsburgh have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Pittsburgh visited Navy on November 17, 1934, and won 31-7, taking the college football belt from the home team with the victory.
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 20013) · This game in the downloadable dataset