Pennsylvania defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Bucknell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 693 days into reign #13, which began with a win over Princeton, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 5 more times before Lafayette took it on October 24, 1896, 714 days after the reign began.
For Bucknell this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–0.
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt on October 3, 1896, defeating visiting Bucknell 40-0. The dominant performance 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 1716) · This game in the downloadable dataset