Harvard takes the belt, 10–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Pennsylvania’s run of 378 days and 15 defenses (reign #15) and starting reign #16. It lasted 749 days and 23 defenses, until Yale took it on November 24, 1900.
For Harvard this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–1; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Pennsylvania 10-0 on November 5, 1898, in the ninth week of the regular season. With this victory, Harvard took 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 2236) · This game in the downloadable dataset