Pennsylvania defends the belt, 8–6, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 14 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 10 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the college football belt at home against Brown on October 21, 1905, winning 8-6 to retain the title.
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 4843) · This game in the downloadable dataset