Harvard defends the belt, 20–0, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 336 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 18 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 24th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on October 7, 1899, defeating visiting Wesleyan (CT) 20-0. The belt remained in Cambridge.
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 2371) · This game in the downloadable dataset