Pennsylvania defends the belt, 42–0, at home over Franklin & Marshall.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 329 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 19 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Franklin & Marshall this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pennsylvania leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt on October 5, 1895, defeating visiting Franklin & Marshall 42-0. 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 1537) · This game in the downloadable dataset