Army takes the belt, 32–13, at home over Navy.
AP poll, week 8: Navy No. 2 at Army No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army took the belt here, ending Navy’s run of 56 days and 6 defenses (reign #94) and starting reign #95. It lasted 693 days and 14 defenses, until Columbia took it on October 25, 1947.
For Army this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Navy led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 3–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On December 1, 1945, Army defeated Navy 32-13 to claim the College Football Belt. With this victory, Army took the belt from Navy's possession.
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 26940) · This game in the downloadable dataset