Harvard defends the belt, 36–0, on the road at Yale.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 749 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. Harvard went on to defend it 4 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Yale this was its 20th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 20th of 20 belt games between the two; going in, Yale led the belt series 12–5–2; all-time Yale leads 12–6–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard visited Yale on November 21, 1914, in a regular season matchup. Yale won the game 36-0. Harvard retained the belt despite the loss.
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 8725) · This game in the downloadable dataset