Army defends the belt, 20–13, on the road at Michigan.
AP poll, week 5: Army No. 1 at Michigan No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 315 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Army went on to defend it 10 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Michigan this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the belt on October 12, 1946, defeating Michigan 20-13 in Ann Arbor. The victory allowed Army to retain the championship.
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 27141) · This game in the downloadable dataset