Harvard takes the belt, 33–24, at home over Columbia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Columbia’s run of 343 days and 5 defenses (reign #96) and starting reign #97. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Cornell took it on October 9, 1948.
For Harvard this was its 26th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 9 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defeated Columbia 33-24 on October 2, 1948, in the fourth week of the regular season. With the victory, Harvard took possession of the College Football Belt from Columbia.
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 28358) · This game in the downloadable dataset