Pennsylvania defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 343 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 7 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defeated Penn State 40-0 on October 1, 1898, in this week 4 regular season matchup. As the defending belt holder, Pennsylvania retained the College Football Belt 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 2124) · This game in the downloadable dataset