Navy defends the belt, 26–0, at home over St. John's (Maryland).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 326 days into reign #25, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Navy went on to defend it 4 more times before Harvard took it on October 19, 1907, 343 days after the reign began.
For St. John's (Maryland) this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Navy led the belt series 1–0; all-time Navy leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Navy defeated St. John's (Maryland) 26-0 on October 2, 1907. Navy was the defending belt holder and retained the title 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 5513) · This game in the downloadable dataset