Notre Dame takes the belt, 9–6, at home over Pittsburgh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame took the belt here, ending Pittsburgh’s run of 336 days and 4 defenses (reign #75) and starting reign #76. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Northwestern took it on November 9, 1935.
For Notre Dame this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Notre Dame leads 2–0.
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Pittsburgh 9-6 on October 19, 1935, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Panthers.
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 20443) · This game in the downloadable dataset