Pennsylvania defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 350 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 5 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the belt at home against Brown on October 8, 1898, winning 18-0 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 2150) · This game in the downloadable dataset