Penn State takes the belt, 35–0, at home over Lebanon Valley.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Penn State took the belt here, ending Lebanon Valley’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #53) and starting reign #54. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Notre Dame took it on October 16, 1926.
For Penn State this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Lebanon Valley and Penn State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Penn State defeated Lebanon Valley 35-0 on October 2, 1926, in the third week of the regular season. With this victory on the field, Penn State took the College Football Belt from Lebanon Valley.
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 14678) · This game in the downloadable dataset