Harvard defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 364 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Yale took it on November 20, 1909, 378 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 4–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt against Cornell on November 6, 1909, winning 18-0 at home. 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 6532) · This game in the downloadable dataset