Pennsylvania defends the belt, 17–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 361 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 2 more times before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 23rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–0.
About this game
On October 19, 1898, Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt at home against Wesleyan (CT), winning 17-0 to retain the title.
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 2188) · This game in the downloadable dataset