Harvard defends the belt, 16–6, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 357 days into reign #18, which began with a win over Yale, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. It was the last defense: Yale took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 22, 1902.
For Dartmouth this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the belt at home against Dartmouth on November 15, 1902, winning 16-6 to retain it.
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 3567) · This game in the downloadable dataset