Navy retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Dickinson.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 7 days into reign #21, which began with a win over Princeton, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Swarthmore took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 29, 1904.
For Dickinson this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Navy leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Navy visited Dickinson on October 22, 1904, in week 6 of the regular season for belt game #307. The teams played to a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Navy retained the belt.
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 4361) · This game in the downloadable dataset