Army defends the belt, 46–21, at home over Cornell.
AP poll, week 4: Cornell unranked at Army No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 308 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Army went on to defend it 11 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Cornell this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 2–0.
About this game
Army hosted Cornell on October 5, 1946, in the fourth week of the regular season. Army won 46-21, retaining the college football belt.
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 27076) · This game in the downloadable dataset