Harvard defends the belt, 11–0, at home over Pennsylvania.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 350 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Yale took it on November 22, 1902, 364 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 30th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 8th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 4–3; all-time Harvard leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Pennsylvania 11-0 on November 8, 1902, in the ninth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Harvard retained the lineal 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 3525) · This game in the downloadable dataset