Harvard defends the belt, 20–6, at home over Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 364 days into reign #31, which began with a win over Army, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. It was the last defense: Princeton took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 4, 1911.
For Brown this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 7th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 6–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt at home against Brown on October 28, 1911, winning 20-6 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 7269) · This game in the downloadable dataset