Pennsylvania defends the belt, 35–4, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 364 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 10 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its first 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 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defeated Penn State 35-4 on November 9, 1895. As the belt holder, Pennsylvania's victory allowed them to retain the College Football 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 1642) · This game in the downloadable dataset