Pennsylvania defends the belt, 12–6, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 35 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 7 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 19th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 9th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–3; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania, defending the belt, hosted Harvard on November 11, 1905, and won 12-6 to retain the 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 4994) · This game in the downloadable dataset