Yale takes the belt, 23–0, at home over Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 364 days and 11 defenses (reign #18) and starting reign #19. It lasted 357 days and 10 defenses, until Princeton took it on November 14, 1903.
For Yale this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 14th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 10–2–1; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale defeated Harvard 23-0 on November 22, 1902, taking the College Football Belt from Harvard with this victory at home.
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 3615) · This game in the downloadable dataset