Harvard defends the belt, 14–0, at home over Bates.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 336 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 20 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Bates this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 6th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–0; all-time Harvard leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated visiting Bates 14-0 on October 4, 1913, in a regular season matchup. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the college football belt 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 7951) · This game in the downloadable dataset