Navy retains the belt after a 6–6 tie with Notre Dame.
AP poll, week 8: Navy No. 2 at Notre Dame No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 28 days into reign #94, which began with a win over Duke, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Navy went on to defend it 2 more times before Army took it on December 1, 1945, 56 days after the reign began.
For Notre Dame this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Notre Dame leads 2–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Navy visited Notre Dame on November 3, 1945, in a week 9 regular season matchup that ended in a 6-6 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Navy retained the belt as the holder.
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 26764) · This game in the downloadable dataset