Pennsylvania defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Lehigh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 357 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Lehigh this was its 8th 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 College Football Belt at home against Lehigh on October 15, 1898, winning 40-0. The decisive 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 2176) · This game in the downloadable dataset