Pennsylvania defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Virginia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 354 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 4 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Virginia this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defeated Virginia 40-0 on October 12, 1898, in a regular season matchup. As the defending belt holder, Pennsylvania retained the championship 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 2161) · This game in the downloadable dataset