Temple takes the belt, 7–0, on the road at Carnegie Mellon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Temple took the belt here, ending Carnegie Mellon’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #79) and starting reign #80. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Michigan State took it on November 6, 1937.
For Temple this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Carnegie Mellon and Temple have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Temple visited Carnegie Mellon on October 23, 1937, and defeated the host team 7-0 in week 6 of the regular season. With this victory, Temple took possession of the College Football Belt from Carnegie Mellon.
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 21928) · This game in the downloadable dataset