Swarthmore takes the belt, 4–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Swarthmore took the belt here, ending Pennsylvania’s run of 371 days and 14 defenses (reign #23) and starting reign #24. It lasted 28 days and 3 defenses, until Navy took it on November 10, 1906.
For Swarthmore this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 2–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Swarthmore defeated Pennsylvania 4-0 on October 13, 1906, in the fourth week of the regular season. With the victory, Swarthmore took possession of the College Football Belt from Pennsylvania.
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 5241) · This game in the downloadable dataset