Pennsylvania defends the belt, 30–0, on the road at Duquesne A.C..
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 347 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 14 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Duquesne A.C. this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Duquesne A.C. and Pennsylvania have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Pennsylvania traveled to face Duquesne A.C. on October 23, 1895, in a regular season matchup. Pennsylvania won 30-0 and retained 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 1594) · This game in the downloadable dataset