Pennsylvania retains the belt after a 6–6 tie with Lafayette.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 28 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 8 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For Lafayette this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–1; all-time Pennsylvania leads 3–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania visited Lafayette on November 4, 1905, and the teams played to a 6-6 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Pennsylvania retained the belt as the holder.
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 4939) · This game in the downloadable dataset