Harvard defends the belt, 9–5, at home over Springfield.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 7 days into reign #26, which began with a win over Navy, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Carlisle took it on November 9, 1907, 21 days after the reign began.
For Springfield this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defeated Springfield 9-5 on October 26, 1907, in the sixth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Harvard's victory allowed them 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 5668) · This game in the downloadable dataset