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Belt / 1906 season / Reign #23 · Game 322 of 1,643
September 29, 1906 Week 2 · Regular Season Belt defended

Pennsylvania defends the belt, 32–6, at home over Lehigh.

Home · Defending Holder
Pennsylvania 32
AT
Away · Challenger
Lehigh 6
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

Pennsylvania came in 357 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 3 more times before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.

For Lehigh 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 →

Historical Note

About this game

Pennsylvania defended the belt against Lehigh on September 29, 1906, winning 32-6 at home in the second week of the regular season. The victory kept the belt in Pennsylvania's possession.

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 5150) · This game in the downloadable dataset