Harvard defends the belt, 22–10, at home over Carlisle.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 357 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 13 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Carlisle this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on October 28, 1899, defeating visiting Carlisle 22-10. With the victory, Harvard retained possession of 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 2459) · This game in the downloadable dataset