Harvard defends the belt, 11–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 350 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 14 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the Belt on October 21, 1899, defeating Brown 11-0 at home in a regular season matchup. 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 2436) · This game in the downloadable dataset