Cornell takes the belt, 10–0, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Cornell took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 1,085 days and 25 defenses (reign #33) and starting reign #34. It lasted 371 days and 7 defenses, until Harvard took it on October 28, 1916.
For Cornell this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–0; all-time Harvard leads 4–2. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 23, 1915, Cornell traveled to Harvard and defeated the home team 10-0. With this victory, Cornell claimed the College Football Belt from Harvard.
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 9005) · This game in the downloadable dataset