Columbia defends the belt, 10–0, at home over Holy Cross.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Columbia came in 21 days into reign #96, which began with a win over Army, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Columbia went on to defend it 2 more times before Harvard took it on October 2, 1948, 343 days after the reign began.
For Holy Cross this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Columbia and Holy Cross have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Columbia hosted Holy Cross on November 15, 1947, in a regular season matchup. Columbia defeated Holy Cross 10-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 28093) · This game in the downloadable dataset