Harvard defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 319 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 7 more times before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on October 8, 1902, defeating visiting Amherst 6-0. With the victory, Harvard retained possession of the belt.
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 3316) · This game in the downloadable dataset