Harvard takes the belt, 23–0, at home over Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard took the belt here, ending Cornell’s run of 371 days and 7 defenses (reign #34) and starting reign #35. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Brown took it on November 18, 1916.
For Harvard this was its 24th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 8 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 3–1; all-time Harvard leads 4–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defeated Cornell 23-0 on October 28, 1916, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting team on the field.
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 9509) · This game in the downloadable dataset