Navy defends the belt, 15–0, at home over Dickinson.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 329 days into reign #25, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Navy went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on October 19, 1907, 343 days after the reign began.
For Dickinson this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 4 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–1; all-time Navy leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Navy defended the College Football Belt on October 5, 1907, defeating visiting Dickinson 15-0 to retain the title.
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 5542) · This game in the downloadable dataset