Harvard defends the belt, 6–0, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 7 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Harvard went on to defend it 9 more times before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Dartmouth 6-0 on November 14, 1908, in regular season play. As the belt's defending holder, Harvard retained the championship with the victory.
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 6167) · This game in the downloadable dataset