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Belt / 1914 season / Reign #33 · Game 407 of 1,643
November 7, 1914 Week 8 · Regular Season Belt defended

Harvard defends the belt, 20–0, at home over Princeton.

Home · Defending Holder
Harvard 20
AT
Away · Challenger
Princeton 0
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

Harvard came in 735 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 6 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.

For Princeton this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.

It was the 10th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 4–4–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →

Historical Note

About this game

Harvard defended the College Football Belt on November 7, 1914, defeating visiting Princeton 20-0 in regular season week 8 play to retain the title.

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 8641) · This game in the downloadable dataset