Harvard defends the belt, 35–5, at home over Wesleyan (CT).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 326 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 5 more times before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Wesleyan (CT) this was its 27th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 30 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on October 15, 1902, defeating visiting Wesleyan (CT) 35-5 in their regular season matchup. The victory allowed Harvard to retain 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 3370) · This game in the downloadable dataset