Harvard defends the belt, 29–0, on the road at Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 714 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 19 defenses already behind it; this was its 20th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 3 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard traveled to face Army on October 20, 1900, with the belt on the line. Army won 29-0, but Harvard retained the belt as the defending champion, as the belt only changes hands when the challenger defeats 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 2731) · This game in the downloadable dataset