Carlisle defends the belt, 12–10, on the road at Minnesota.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle came in 7 days into reign #27, which began with a win over Harvard, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Carlisle went on to defend it 8 more times before Harvard took it on November 7, 1908, 364 days after the reign began.
For Minnesota this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Carlisle and Minnesota have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Carlisle visited Minnesota on November 16, 1907, in week 9 of the regular season. Carlisle won 12-10, retaining the belt.
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 5778) · This game in the downloadable dataset