Harvard defends the belt, 15–5, at home over Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 385 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 13 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 19th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 19th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 12–4–2; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Yale 15-5 on November 22, 1913 in New Haven. As the belt's defending holder, Harvard retained the championship 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 8270) · This game in the downloadable dataset