Pennsylvania defends the belt, 32–0, at home over Lafayette.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 364 days into reign #15, which began with a win over Lafayette, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 1 more time before Harvard took it on November 5, 1898, 378 days after the reign began.
For Lafayette this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–1; all-time Pennsylvania leads 3–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defeated Lafayette 32-0 on October 22, 1898, in the seventh week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Pennsylvania retained the belt 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 2201) · This game in the downloadable dataset