Columbia defends the belt, 22–0, on the road at Cornell.
AP poll, week 8: Columbia No. 16 at Cornell unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Columbia came in 7 days into reign #96, which began with a win over Army, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Columbia went on to defend it 4 more times before Harvard took it on October 2, 1948, 343 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Columbia and Cornell have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Columbia visited Cornell on November 1, 1947, in a regular season matchup. Cornell won 22-0. As the belt's defending champion, Columbia retained the belt despite the loss.
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 27973) · This game in the downloadable dataset