Navy takes the belt, 21–0, on the road at Duke.
AP poll, week 5: Navy No. 4 at Duke No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy took the belt here, ending Duke’s run of 336 days and 6 defenses (reign #93) and starting reign #94. It lasted 56 days and 6 defenses, until Army took it on December 1, 1945.
For Navy this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Duke and Navy have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Navy visited Duke on October 6, 1945, in a Week 5 regular season matchup. Duke won the game 21-0, but Navy took the belt from Duke by winning on the field.
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 26565) · This game in the downloadable dataset