Pennsylvania defends the belt, 32–0, at home over Gettysburg.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 690 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 6 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Gettysburg this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt against Gettysburg on September 30, 1896, winning 32-0. The belt remained with Pennsylvania.
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 1698) · This game in the downloadable dataset