Pennsylvania defends the belt, 50–0, at home over Mansfield.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 347 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 6 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Mansfield this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Mansfield and Pennsylvania have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt at home against Mansfield on October 5, 1898, winning 50-0. The shutout 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 2133) · This game in the downloadable dataset