Harvard defends the belt, 17–6, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 7 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Harvard went on to defend it 22 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 10 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 12, 1898, Harvard defeated Brown 17-6 in the regular season. Harvard was the defending belt holder and retained the belt 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 2260) · This game in the downloadable dataset