Temple retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Holy Cross.
AP poll, week 6: Holy Cross No. 17 at Temple unranked · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Temple came in 7 days into reign #80, which began with a win over Carnegie Mellon, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Michigan State took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 6, 1937.
For Holy Cross this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
This is the only time Holy Cross and Temple have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Holy Cross visited Temple on October 30, 1937, in a week 7 regular season matchup for the belt. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Temple retained the belt as the holder.
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 21997) · This game in the downloadable dataset