Penn State takes the belt, 14–7, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Penn State took the belt here, ending Pennsylvania’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #102) and starting reign #103. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Syracuse took it on November 8, 1952.
For Penn State this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Penn State visited Pennsylvania on November 1, 1952, and defeated the home team 14-7 in week 8 of the regular season. With this victory, Penn State claimed the College Football Belt from Pennsylvania.
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 31189) · This game in the downloadable dataset