Harvard defends the belt, 17–5, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 728 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Yale took it on November 24, 1900, 749 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 29th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 7th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 3–3; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on November 3, 1900, defeating visiting Pennsylvania 17-5 in a regular season matchup. The victory allowed Harvard to retain the belt.
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 2784) · This game in the downloadable dataset