Syracuse defends the belt, 20–14, at home over Colgate.
AP poll, week 10: Colgate unranked at Syracuse No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 7 days into reign #104, which began with a win over Penn State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Syracuse went on to defend it 1 more time before Alabama took it on January 1, 1953, 54 days after the reign began.
For Colgate this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Syracuse led the belt series 1–0; all-time Syracuse leads 2–0.
About this game
Syracuse defended the belt against visiting Colgate on November 15, 1952, winning 20-14. The victory allowed Syracuse to retain the lineal 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 31313) · This game in the downloadable dataset