Lebanon Valley takes the belt, 30–12, on the road at Villanova.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Lebanon Valley took the belt here, ending Villanova’s run of 303 days and 0 defenses (reign #52) and starting reign #53. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Penn State took it on October 2, 1926.
For Lebanon Valley this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Lebanon Valley traveled to face Villanova on September 25, 1926, and defeated the home team 30-12 in week 2 of the regular season. With the victory, Lebanon Valley claimed the College Football Belt from Villanova.
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 63858) · This game in the downloadable dataset