Harvard takes the belt, 17–0, at home over Carlisle.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Carlisle’s run of 364 days and 9 defenses (reign #27) and starting reign #28. It lasted 378 days and 10 defenses, until Yale took it on November 20, 1909.
For Harvard this was its 21st shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–1; all-time Harvard leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Carlisle traveled to face Harvard on November 7, 1908, in a regular season matchup. Harvard won 17-0 and took the College Football Belt from Carlisle by virtue of the victory on the field.
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 6125) · This game in the downloadable dataset