Carnegie Mellon takes the belt, 9–7, at home over Notre Dame.
AP poll, week 5: Notre Dame No. 12 at Carnegie Mellon unranked · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carnegie Mellon took the belt here, ending Notre Dame’s run of 329 days and 3 defenses (reign #78) and starting reign #79. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Temple took it on October 23, 1937.
For Carnegie Mellon this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Carnegie Mellon led the belt series 1–0; all-time Carnegie Mellon leads 2–0.
About this game
Notre Dame visited Carnegie Mellon on October 16, 1937, in a regular season week 5 matchup. Carnegie Mellon won 9-7, taking the College Football Belt from Notre Dame on the field.
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 21821) · This game in the downloadable dataset