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Belt / 1895 season / Reign #13 · Game 193 of 1,643
October 16, 1895 Week 7 · Regular Season Belt defended

Pennsylvania defends the belt, 36–0, at home over Carlisle.

Home · Defending Holder
Pennsylvania 36
AT
Away · Challenger
Carlisle 0
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

Pennsylvania came in 340 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 16 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.

For Carlisle this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.

It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pennsylvania leads 3–0–1. Every meeting →

Historical Note

About this game

Pennsylvania defended the belt on October 16, 1895, defeating visiting Carlisle 36-0. The shutout victory allowed Pennsylvania 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 1568) · This game in the downloadable dataset