Carlisle takes the belt, 23–15, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Carlisle took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #26) and starting reign #27. It lasted 364 days and 9 defenses, until Harvard took it on November 7, 1908.
For Carlisle this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Carlisle defeated Harvard 23-15 on November 9, 1907, in Cambridge. With the victory, Carlisle took possession of the College Football Belt from Harvard.
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 5736) · This game in the downloadable dataset