Navy defends the belt, 14–7, on the road at Pennsylvania.
AP poll, week 8: Navy No. 2 at Pennsylvania No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 21 days into reign #94, which began with a win over Duke, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Navy went on to defend it 3 more times before Army took it on December 1, 1945, 56 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 35th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Navy leads 2–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Navy visited Pennsylvania on October 27, 1945, in a regular season matchup. Pennsylvania won 14-7. Navy was the belt defender and retained the belt with the victory.
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 26721) · This game in the downloadable dataset