Swarthmore takes the belt, 9–0, on the road at Navy.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Swarthmore took the belt here, ending Navy’s run of 14 days and 2 defenses (reign #21) and starting reign #22. It lasted 343 days and 2 defenses, until Pennsylvania took it on October 7, 1905.
For Swarthmore this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Swarthmore defeated Navy 9-0 on October 29, 1904. With this victory on the road, Swarthmore took possession of the College Football Belt from Navy.
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 4432) · This game in the downloadable dataset