Harvard defends the belt, 29–0, at home over Williams.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 329 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Harvard went on to defend it 20 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Williams this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt against Williams on September 30, 1899, winning 29-0 at home. The victory allowed Harvard to retain 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 2338) · This game in the downloadable dataset