Navy defends the belt, 40–0, at home over North Carolina.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 7 days into reign #25, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Navy went on to defend it 7 more times before Harvard took it on October 19, 1907, 343 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Navy and North Carolina have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Navy defeated North Carolina 40-0 on November 17, 1906, in regular season play. The defending belt holder Navy kept the belt 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 5413) · This game in the downloadable dataset