Pennsylvania defends the belt, 38–0, at home over Franklin & Marshall.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 4 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 13 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For Franklin & Marshall this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 10 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania, holding the belt, defeated visiting Franklin & Marshall 38-0 on October 11, 1905. With the victory, Pennsylvania retained the lineal championship.
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 4764) · This game in the downloadable dataset