Harvard defends the belt, 14–6, on the road at Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 329 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 4 more times before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard traveled to Army on October 18, 1902, in week 6 of the regular season. Army won the game 14-6, but Harvard held the belt, meaning the final score has been recorded incorrectly in available sources or the belt's lineage records require verification for this 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 3390) · This game in the downloadable dataset