Pennsylvania defends the belt, 27–17, on the road at Columbia.
AP poll, week 6: Pennsylvania No. 17 at Columbia unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 7 days into reign #102, which began with a win over Princeton, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 1 more time before Penn State took it on November 1, 1952, 21 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 21st shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
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
Pennsylvania, defending the belt, traveled to Columbia on October 18, 1952 for a regular season matchup in week 6. Pennsylvania won 27-17 and retained 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 31076) · This game in the downloadable dataset