Harvard defends the belt, 20–0, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 21 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Harvard went on to defend it 22 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 18th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 12–3–2; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on November 23, 1912, defeating Yale 20-0 in New Haven. The victory allowed Harvard to retain the belt.
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 7848) · This game in the downloadable dataset