Notre Dame defends the belt, 7–0, on the road at Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 28 days into reign #55, which began with a win over Penn State, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 1 more time before Carnegie Mellon took it on November 27, 1926, 42 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Notre Dame leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Notre Dame traveled to Army on November 13, 1926, in a regular season matchup. Notre Dame won 7-0 and retained 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 15016) · This game in the downloadable dataset