Pennsylvania defends the belt, 23–0, on the road at Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 49 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 5 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–0.
About this game
Pennsylvania visited Columbia on November 25, 1905, in week 11 of the regular season. Columbia defeated Pennsylvania 23-0. Pennsylvania was the belt holder entering the game and retained it with the victory.
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 5088) · This game in the downloadable dataset