Pennsylvania defends the belt, 4–0, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 33 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 10 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt at home against Cornell on November 25, 1897, winning 4-0 to retain the title.
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 2070) · This game in the downloadable dataset