Colgate takes the belt, 28–0, on the road at Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Colgate took the belt here, ending Brown’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #36) and starting reign #37. It lasted 336 days and 2 defenses, until Brown took it on October 27, 1917.
For Colgate this was its first 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
Colgate visited Brown on November 25, 1916, and defeated the home team 28-0. With this victory, Colgate claimed the College Football Belt from Brown.
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 9703) · This game in the downloadable dataset