Syracuse defends the belt, 26–13, on the road at Fordham.
AP poll, week 10: Syracuse No. 16 at Fordham unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse came in 14 days into reign #104, which began with a win over Penn State, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Alabama took the belt in the very next belt game, on January 1, 1953.
For Fordham this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Fordham and Syracuse have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Syracuse traveled to Fordham on November 22, 1952, in a regular season matchup with the belt on the line. Fordham won 26-13, but Syracuse was the defending belt holder and retained it with the victory.
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 31360) · This game in the downloadable dataset