Harvard defends the belt, 3–0, at home over Princeton.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 14 days into reign #35, which began with a win over Cornell, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Brown took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 18, 1916.
For Princeton this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 11th of 13 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–4–1; all-time it is 6–6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Harvard defended the belt at home against Princeton on November 11, 1916, winning 3-0 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 9608) · This game in the downloadable dataset