Carlisle defends the belt, 12–0, on the road at Syracuse.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle came in 336 days into reign #27, which began with a win over Harvard, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Carlisle went on to defend it 2 more times before Harvard took it on November 7, 1908, 364 days after the reign began.
For Syracuse this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Carlisle and Syracuse have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Carlisle visited Syracuse on October 10, 1908, in a regular season matchup. Syracuse won 12-0, but Carlisle was the defending belt holder and retained it 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 5943) · This game in the downloadable dataset