Harvard takes the belt, 16–6, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Princeton’s run of 364 days and 8 defenses (reign #32) and starting reign #33. It lasted 1,085 days and 25 defenses, until Cornell took it on October 23, 1915.
For Harvard this was its 23rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 8th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 4–2–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 2, 1912, Harvard defeated Princeton 16-6 in regular season play to claim the College Football Belt. The victory gave Harvard control of the lineal championship, which had previously been held by Princeton.
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 7722) · This game in the downloadable dataset