Harvard defends the belt, 3–0, on the road at Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 371 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 15 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Princeton this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 9th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Princeton led the belt series 4–3–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard visited Princeton on November 8, 1913, in a regular season matchup. Princeton won 3-0. Harvard entered the game as the belt holder and retained the 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 8189) · This game in the downloadable dataset