Pennsylvania defends the belt, 40–0, on the road at Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 7 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 14 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania, defending the belt, traveled to Brown on October 30, 1897, for a week 8 matchup. Brown won 40-0, but Pennsylvania retained 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 2004) · This game in the downloadable dataset