Lehigh takes the belt, 3–0, at home over West Virginia Wesleyan.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Lehigh took the belt here, ending West Virginia Wesleyan’s run of 343 days and 7 defenses (reign #49) and starting reign #50. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Muhlenberg took it on October 31, 1925.
For Lehigh this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Lehigh and West Virginia Wesleyan have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 17, 1925, Lehigh defeated West Virginia Wesleyan 3-0 at home in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Lehigh took the college football belt from West Virginia Wesleyan.
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 63852) · This game in the downloadable dataset