Brown takes the belt, 21–0, on the road at Harvard.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Brown took the belt here, ending Harvard’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #35) and starting reign #36. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Colgate took it on November 25, 1916.
For Brown this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 10th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 8–0–1; all-time Harvard leads 8–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Brown visited Harvard on November 18, 1916, and defeated the home team 21-0. With this victory, Brown 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 9649) · This game in the downloadable dataset