Carlisle defends the belt, 16–6, on the road at Navy.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle came in 357 days into reign #27, which began with a win over Harvard, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. It was the last defense: Harvard took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 7, 1908.
For Navy this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Carlisle and Navy have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Carlisle traveled to face Navy on October 31, 1908, in a regular season matchup. Carlisle won 16-6 and retained the college football 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 6077) · This game in the downloadable dataset