Harvard defends the belt, 6–5, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 14 days into reign #26, which began with a win over Navy, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Carlisle took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 9, 1907.
For Brown this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 5th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 4–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard, holding the belt, defeated Brown 6-5 on November 2, 1907. The victory allowed Harvard to retain the 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 5707) · This game in the downloadable dataset