Yale takes the belt, 8–0, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Yale took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 378 days and 10 defenses (reign #28) and starting reign #29. It lasted 329 days and 4 defenses, until Army took it on October 15, 1910.
For Yale this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 16th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 11–3–1; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Yale visited Harvard on November 20, 1909, and defeated the belt holder 8-0. With this victory on the field, Yale took possession of the College Football Belt from Harvard.
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 6627) · This game in the downloadable dataset