Harvard retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Brown.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 742 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 19 defenses already behind it; this was its 20th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 5 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Brown this was its 14th 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 9th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 8–0; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard visited Brown on November 14, 1914, in week 9 of the regular season. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Harvard retained the belt by virtue of being the holder.
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 8676) · This game in the downloadable dataset