Harvard defends the belt, 47–7, at home over Holy Cross.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 350 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 18 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Holy Cross this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defended the belt against Holy Cross on October 18, 1913, winning 47-7 at home to retain the championship.
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 8053) · This game in the downloadable dataset