Harvard defends the belt, 51–0, at home over Virginia.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 7 days into reign #35, which began with a win over Cornell, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Harvard went on to defend it 1 more time before Brown took it on November 18, 1916, 21 days after the reign began.
For Virginia this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 1–0; all-time Harvard leads 2–0.
About this game
Harvard defeated Virginia 51-0 on November 4, 1916, in Cambridge. The victory allowed Harvard to retain the College Football Belt.
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 9562) · This game in the downloadable dataset