Pennsylvania defends the belt, 41–0, at home over Franklin & Marshall.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 336 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 9 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Franklin & Marshall this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt against Franklin & Marshall on September 24, 1898, winning 41-0. The victory allowed Pennsylvania to retain 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 2097) · This game in the downloadable dataset