Pennsylvania defends the belt, 50–0, at home over Gettysburg.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 340 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 8 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Gettysburg this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the belt at home against Gettysburg on September 28, 1898, defeating the visitors 50-0 to retain the championship.
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 2107) · This game in the downloadable dataset