Carlisle retains the belt after a 6–6 tie with Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle came in 350 days into reign #27, which began with a win over Harvard, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Carlisle went on to defend it 1 more time before Harvard took it on November 7, 1908, 364 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 32nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 3–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Carlisle hosted Pennsylvania on October 24, 1908, in a week 6 regular season matchup that ended in a 6-6 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession on a tie, so Carlisle successfully defended the belt.
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 6036) · This game in the downloadable dataset