Pennsylvania defends the belt, 11–0, at home over North Carolina.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Pennsylvania came in 364 days into reign #23, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Pennsylvania went on to defend it 1 more time before Swarthmore took it on October 13, 1906, 371 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 1–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–0.
About this game
Pennsylvania defended the College Football Belt at home against North Carolina on October 6, 1906, winning 11-0 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 5192) · This game in the downloadable dataset