Harvard defends the belt, 11–0, at home over Amherst.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 357 days into reign #31, which began with a win over Army, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Princeton took it on November 4, 1911, 371 days after the reign began.
For Amherst this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 16 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt against Amherst on October 21, 1911, winning 11-0 at home 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 7230) · This game in the downloadable dataset