Pennsylvania defends the belt, 6–5, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 54 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 4 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the belt at home against Cornell on November 30, 1905, winning 6-5 in the regular season finale.
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 5114) · This game in the downloadable dataset