Carlisle defends the belt, 53–0, at home over Conway Hall.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle came in 315 days into reign #27, which began with a win over Harvard, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Carlisle went on to defend it 6 more times before Harvard took it on November 7, 1908, 364 days after the reign began.
For Conway Hall this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Carlisle and Conway Hall have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Carlisle defeated Conway Hall 53-0 on September 19, 1908, in the season opener. The defending belt holder Carlisle retained 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 5856) · This game in the downloadable dataset