Harvard defends the belt, 11–0, at home over Williams.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 308 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Harvard went on to defend it 10 more times before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Williams this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 13 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the belt against Williams on September 27, 1902, winning 11-0 to retain it.
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 3238) · This game in the downloadable dataset