Harvard defends the belt, 17–0, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 14 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Harvard went on to defend it 21 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 10th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 9–0; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard traveled to Yale on November 19, 1898, in week 11 of the regular season. Yale won 17-0, but Harvard retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 2277) · This game in the downloadable dataset