Harvard defends the belt, 15–0, at home over Bates.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 336 days into reign #31, which began with a win over Army, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 4 more times before Princeton took it on November 4, 1911, 371 days after the reign began.
For Bates this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 5th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 4–0; all-time Harvard leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the belt against Bates on September 30, 1911, winning 15-0 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 7085) · This game in the downloadable dataset