Harvard defends the belt, 4–0, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 14 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Harvard went on to defend it 8 more times before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before.
It was the 15th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 11–2–1; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard visited Yale on November 21, 1908, in week 10 of the regular season. Yale won 4-0. Harvard entered as the belt holder and retained it 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 6200) · This game in the downloadable dataset