Harvard defends the belt, 24–0, at home over Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 707 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 5 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt against Columbia on October 13, 1900, winning 24-0 at home to retain the title.
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 2698) · This game in the downloadable dataset