Harvard defends the belt, 3–0, at home over Dartmouth.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 14 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Harvard went on to defend it 23 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Dartmouth this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 14 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–0; all-time Harvard leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Dartmouth 3-0 on November 16, 1912, in the ninth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending champion, Harvard retained the championship 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 7807) · This game in the downloadable dataset