Harvard defends the belt, 29–0, at home over Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 357 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 17 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt at home on October 25, 1913, defeating visiting Penn State 29-0 in a regular season matchup.
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 8100) · This game in the downloadable dataset