Navy takes the belt, 5–4, at home over Swarthmore.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy took the belt here, ending Swarthmore’s run of 28 days and 3 defenses (reign #24) and starting reign #25. It lasted 343 days and 8 defenses, until Harvard took it on October 19, 1907.
For Navy this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Swarthmore led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Navy defeated Swarthmore 5-4 on November 10, 1906, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Swarthmore team. This was the eighth game of Navy's 1906 regular season.
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 5380) · This game in the downloadable dataset