Pennsylvania defends the belt, 46–2, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 383 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 8 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the belt at home against Cornell on November 28, 1895, winning 46-2. The victory allowed Pennsylvania to retain 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 1678) · This game in the downloadable dataset