Harvard defends the belt, 34–0, at home over Maine.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 329 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 21 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Maine this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Maine 34-0 on September 27, 1913, in the second week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the lineal 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 7908) · This game in the downloadable dataset