Harvard defends the belt, 29–7, at home over Carlisle.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 1,071 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 23 defenses already behind it; this was its 24th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Carlisle this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 4–1; all-time Harvard leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 9, 1915, Harvard defeated visiting Carlisle 29-7 in a regular season game. Harvard was the belt holder coming in and successfully defended it 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 8897) · This game in the downloadable dataset