Harvard takes the belt, 22–0, at home over Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Yale’s run of 364 days and 12 defenses (reign #17) and starting reign #18. It lasted 364 days and 11 defenses, until Yale took it on November 22, 1902.
For Harvard this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 13th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 10–1–1; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Yale 22-0 on November 23, 1901, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Bulldogs in their week 10 matchup.
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 3175) · This game in the downloadable dataset