Harvard defends the belt, 17–5, at home over Carlisle.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 721 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. Harvard went on to defend it 2 more times before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Carlisle this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt at home against Carlisle on October 27, 1900, winning 17-5. The belt remained with Harvard.
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 2759) · This game in the downloadable dataset