Notre Dame defends the belt, 14–0, on the road at Navy.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 7 days into reign #76, which began with a win over Pittsburgh, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 1 more time before Northwestern took it on November 9, 1935, 21 days after the reign began.
For Navy this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Navy led the belt series 1–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 2–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame visited Navy on October 26, 1935, in week 6 of the regular season. Navy won 14-0. Notre Dame was the belt holder entering the game and 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 20513) · This game in the downloadable dataset