Harvard defends the belt, 17–0, at home over Maine.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 343 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 4 more times before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Maine this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Maine 17-0 on October 16, 1909, in the fifth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the College Football Belt 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 6401) · This game in the downloadable dataset