Pennsylvania defends the belt, 20–10, at home over Carlisle.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 14 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 13 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Carlisle this was its 2nd 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 3–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the belt against Carlisle on November 6, 1897, winning 20-10. The Quakers retained the championship with the victory.
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 2024) · This game in the downloadable dataset