Cornell defends the belt, 24–9, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Cornell came in 33 days into reign #34, which began with a win over Harvard, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Cornell went on to defend it 3 more times before Harvard took it on October 28, 1916, 371 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 33rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 4–0; all-time Pennsylvania leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Cornell defended the belt on November 25, 1915, defeating Pennsylvania 24-9 on the road in regular season week 11. Cornell retained the championship with the victory.
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 9219) · This game in the downloadable dataset