Brown takes the belt, 7–6, at home over Colgate.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Brown took the belt here, ending Colgate’s run of 336 days and 2 defenses (reign #37) and starting reign #38. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Syracuse took it on November 3, 1917.
For Brown this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Colgate led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Brown defeated Colgate 7-6 on October 27, 1917 in this regular season matchup. With the victory, Brown took possession of the college football belt from Colgate.
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 9967) · This game in the downloadable dataset