Harvard defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Bowdoin.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 700 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 7 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Bowdoin this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on October 6, 1900, defeating visiting Bowdoin 12-0 in the regular season.
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 2661) · This game in the downloadable dataset