Harvard defends the belt, 27–5, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 7 days into reign #31, which began with a win over Army, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Harvard went on to defend it 7 more times before Princeton took it on November 4, 1911, 371 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 4–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Cornell 27-5 on November 5, 1910, in the eighth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the belt with the victory.
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 6938) · This game in the downloadable dataset