Pittsburgh defends the belt, 20–0, at home over Carnegie Mellon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pittsburgh came in 12 days into reign #75, which began with a win over Navy, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Pittsburgh went on to defend it 3 more times before Notre Dame took it on October 19, 1935, 336 days after the reign began.
For Carnegie Mellon this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Pittsburgh defeated Carnegie Mellon 20-0 on November 29, 1934, in a regular season matchup. As the defending belt holder, Pittsburgh retained the belt 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 20094) · This game in the downloadable dataset