Grove City takes the belt, 12–6, on the road at Geneva.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Grove City took the belt here, ending Geneva’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #59) and starting reign #60. It lasted 14 days and 0 defenses, until Villanova took it on November 17, 1928.
For Grove City this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Geneva and Grove City have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On November 3, 1928, Grove City traveled to Geneva and defeated the belt holder 12-6, taking the lineal championship on the field in week 9 of the regular season.
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 63861) · This game in the downloadable dataset