Lafayette defends the belt, 17–0, on the road at Bloomsburg.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Lafayette came in 17 days into reign #14, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Lafayette went on to defend it 10 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 23, 1897, 364 days after the reign began.
For Bloomsburg this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Lafayette leads 2–0.
About this game
Lafayette visited Bloomsburg on November 10, 1896, in week 10 of the regular season. Bloomsburg won 17-0, but Lafayette retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 1835) · This game in the downloadable dataset