Pennsylvania defends the belt, 32–0, on the road at Crescent A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 333 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 18 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Crescent A.C. this was its 10th 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.
This is the only time Crescent A.C. and Pennsylvania have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Pennsylvania, defending the belt, traveled to face Crescent A.C. on October 9, 1895. Crescent A.C. won 32-0 at home. Pennsylvania retained the belt with the victory.
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 1547) · This game in the downloadable dataset