Harvard defends the belt, 23–6, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 364 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 16 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 2–0; all-time Harvard leads 4–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Cornell visited Harvard on November 1, 1913, in a week 7 regular season matchup. Harvard won 23-6, maintaining possession of the College Football 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 8146) · This game in the downloadable dataset