Harvard retains the belt after a 13–13 tie with Penn State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 721 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 16 defenses already behind it; this was its 17th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 8 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Harvard visited Penn State on October 24, 1914, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 13-13 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession in the event of a draw, so Harvard successfully defended the 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 8558) · This game in the downloadable dataset