Harvard defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 336 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 3 more times before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Brown 6-0 on October 25, 1902, in Cambridge. The victory allowed Harvard to retain the college football 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 3440) · This game in the downloadable dataset