Harvard defends the belt, 41–0, at home over Bates.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 711 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 4 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Bates this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Bates 41-0 on October 17, 1900, in the sixth week of the regular season. As the belt holder, Harvard successfully defended the championship with the victory.
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 2719) · This game in the downloadable dataset