Harvard defends the belt, 23–0, at home over Carlisle.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 343 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 2 more times before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Carlisle this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Carlisle 23-0 on November 1, 1902. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the championship with the victory.
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 3478) · This game in the downloadable dataset