Pennsylvania defends the belt, 18–4, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 19 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 22 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania, holding the belt, defeated visiting Harvard 18-4 on November 29, 1894, to retain the lineal championship.
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 1492) · This game in the downloadable dataset