Pennsylvania takes the belt, 11–4, at home over Swarthmore.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania took the belt here, ending Swarthmore’s run of 343 days and 2 defenses (reign #22) and starting reign #23. It lasted 371 days and 14 defenses, until Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906.
For Pennsylvania this was its 31st shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 7, 1905, Pennsylvania defeated Swarthmore 11-4 at home in a regular season game. With this victory, Pennsylvania took the College Football Belt from Swarthmore.
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 4738) · This game in the downloadable dataset