Harvard defends the belt, 11–6, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 742 days into reign #16, which began with a win over Pennsylvania, with 22 defenses already behind it; this was its 23rd defense. It was the last defense: Yale took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 24, 1900.
For Brown this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt against Brown on November 17, 1900, winning 11-6 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 2834) · This game in the downloadable dataset