Duke defends the belt, 76–0, at home over Bogue Field.
AP poll, week 4: Bogue Field unranked at Duke No. 18 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Duke came in 329 days into reign #93, which began with a win over Georgia Tech, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. It was the last defense: Navy took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 6, 1945.
For Bogue Field this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Bogue Field and Duke have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Duke hosted Bogue Field at Bogue Field on September 29, 1945, in a week 4 regular season matchup. Duke won 76-0 and retained the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 26492) · This game in the downloadable dataset