Pennsylvania defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 354 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 12 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 2nd 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 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the belt against Brown on October 30, 1895, winning 12-0. The 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 1615) · This game in the downloadable dataset