Pittsburgh defends the belt, 35–0, on the road at Washington & Jefferson.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pittsburgh came in 322 days into reign #75, which began with a win over Navy, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Pittsburgh went on to defend it 1 more time before Notre Dame took it on October 19, 1935, 336 days after the reign began.
For Washington & Jefferson this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–1; all-time Pittsburgh leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Pittsburgh visited Washington & Jefferson on October 5, 1935, in a regular season matchup. Washington & Jefferson won 35-0. Pittsburgh entered the game as the belt holder and retained it 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 20305) · This game in the downloadable dataset