Harvard defends the belt, 16–0, on the road at Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 364 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 12 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 28th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 6th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Pennsylvania led the belt series 3–2; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard traveled to Pennsylvania on November 4, 1899, in a regular season matchup. Harvard won 16-0 and retained the College Football 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 2487) · This game in the downloadable dataset