Harvard defends the belt, 7–0, at home over Massachusetts.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 1,064 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 22 defenses already behind it; this was its 23rd defense. Harvard went on to defend it 2 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Massachusetts 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 Harvard and Massachusetts have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Harvard defeated Massachusetts 7-0 on October 2, 1915, in the third week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Harvard retained the championship with the victory.
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 8834) · This game in the downloadable dataset