Carlisle defends the belt, 12–5, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle came in 329 days into reign #27, which began with a win over Harvard, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Carlisle went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on November 7, 1908, 364 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Carlisle and Penn State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 3, 1908, Carlisle defeated Penn State 12-5 at home to retain the college football belt in week 3 of the regular season.
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 5892) · This game in the downloadable dataset