Pennsylvania defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Swarthmore.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 325 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 21 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Swarthmore this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt on October 1, 1895, defeating visiting Swarthmore 40-0. 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 1521) · This game in the downloadable dataset