Harvard defends the belt, 11–0, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 350 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 3 more times before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 6th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the belt at home against Brown on October 23, 1909, winning 11-0 to retain the championship.
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 6449) · This game in the downloadable dataset