Lafayette defends the belt, 23–0, on the road at Wyoming Seminary.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Lafayette came in 18 days into reign #14, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Lafayette went on to defend it 9 more times before Pennsylvania took it on October 23, 1897, 364 days after the reign began.
For Wyoming Seminary 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 traveled to Wyoming Seminary on November 11, 1896, in week 10 of the regular season. Wyoming Seminary won 23-0, but Lafayette retained the belt as the defending champion, since the belt only changes hands when the challenger defeats the holder.
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 1837) · This game in the downloadable dataset