Harvard defends the belt, 44–0, at home over Springfield.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 700 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 11 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Springfield this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defeated Springfield 44-0 on October 3, 1914, in the third week of the regular season. As the belt holder, Harvard successfully defended its title 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 8372) · This game in the downloadable dataset