Pennsylvania defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 7 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 23 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt at home against Cornell on November 17, 1894, winning 6-0 in week 12 of the regular season. The victory allowed Pennsylvania to retain the belt.
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 1469) · This game in the downloadable dataset