Harvard defends the belt, 39–6, at home over Colby.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 1,057 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Harvard went on to defend it 3 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Colby this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Colby and Harvard have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on September 25, 1915, defeating visiting Colby 39-6 in this regular season matchup. The victory allowed Harvard to retain 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 8790) · This game in the downloadable dataset