Lafayette takes the belt, 6–4, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Lafayette took the belt here, ending Pennsylvania’s run of 714 days and 24 defenses (reign #13) and starting reign #14. It lasted 364 days and 12 defenses, until Pennsylvania took it on October 23, 1897.
For Lafayette this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 3–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Lafayette traveled to Pennsylvania on October 24, 1896, and defeated the home team 6-4 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Lafayette claimed the College Football Belt from 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 1788) · This game in the downloadable dataset