Harvard defends the belt, 44–0, at home over Bates.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 693 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 12 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Bates this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 7th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 6–0; all-time Harvard leads 7–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard hosted Bates on September 26, 1914, in a Week 2 regular season matchup, defeating the visiting team 44-0. 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 8329) · This game in the downloadable dataset