Columbia defends the belt, 15–0, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Columbia came in 14 days into reign #96, which began with a win over Army, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Columbia went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on October 2, 1948, 343 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Columbia and Dartmouth have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Columbia defended the belt at home against Dartmouth on November 8, 1947, winning 15-0 to retain the championship.
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 28030) · This game in the downloadable dataset