Harvard defends the belt, 8–0, at home over Holy Cross.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 343 days into reign #31, which began with a win over Army, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 3 more times before Princeton took it on November 4, 1911, 371 days after the reign began.
For Holy Cross this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defeated Holy Cross 8-0 on October 7, 1911, in the third week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the College Football 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 7129) · This game in the downloadable dataset