Pennsylvania defends the belt, 15–6, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 28 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 11 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 4th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–1; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt on November 20, 1897, defeating Harvard 15-6 in regular season week 11. The belt remained with 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 2056) · This game in the downloadable dataset