Harvard defends the belt, 9–0, at home over Virginia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 1,078 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 24 defenses already behind it; this was its 25th defense. It was the last defense: Cornell took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 23, 1915.
For Virginia this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defended the belt at home against Virginia on October 16, 1915, winning 9-0 to retain the championship.
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 8959) · This game in the downloadable dataset