Pennsylvania defends the belt, 17–14, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 378 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 9 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 3rd of 9 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt on November 23, 1895, defeating Harvard 17-14 in Cambridge. The belt holder retained control of 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 1669) · This game in the downloadable dataset