Yale takes the belt, 28–0, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 749 days and 23 defenses (reign #16) and starting reign #17. It lasted 364 days and 12 defenses, until Harvard took it on November 23, 1901.
For Yale this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 12th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 9–1–1; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 28-0 on November 24, 1900, taking the College Football Belt from the Crimson on the field.
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 2869) · This game in the downloadable dataset