Harvard defends the belt, 9–0, on the road at Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 357 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 2 more times before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard traveled to Army on October 30, 1909, in a regular season matchup. Harvard won 9-0 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 6482) · This game in the downloadable dataset