Navy defends the belt, 12–0, at home over St. John's (Maryland).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 340 days into reign #25, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. It was the last defense: Harvard took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 19, 1907.
For St. John's (Maryland) this was its 3rd 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 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Navy led the belt series 2–0; all-time Navy leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Navy defended the belt at home against St. John's (Maryland) on October 16, 1907, winning 12-0 to retain the championship.
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 5611) · This game in the downloadable dataset