Pennsylvania defends the belt, 54–0, at home over Virginia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 343 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 15 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Virginia this was its 3rd 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 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defeated Virginia 54-0 on October 19, 1895, in week 7 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Pennsylvania retained the championship 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 1582) · This game in the downloadable dataset