Harvard retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 378 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 10 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 11th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 9–1; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard visited Yale on November 18, 1899, in a Week 11 regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Harvard retained the belt as the holder.
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 2555) · This game in the downloadable dataset