Harvard defends the belt, 11–0, at home over Bates.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 322 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Harvard went on to defend it 7 more times before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Bates this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt at home against Bates on September 25, 1909, winning 11-0 in the second week of the regular season. 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 6260) · This game in the downloadable dataset