Harvard defends the belt, 12–3, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 371 days into reign #28, which began with a win over Carlisle, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. It was the last defense: Yale took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 20, 1909.
For Dartmouth this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt against visiting Dartmouth on November 13, 1909, winning 12-3 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 6571) · This game in the downloadable dataset