Army defends the belt, 48–14, at home over Columbia.
AP poll, week 6: Columbia 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 322 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Army went on to defend it 9 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the belt on October 19, 1946, defeating visiting Columbia 48-14 in a regular season matchup. The victory allowed Army to retain the lineal 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 27200) · This game in the downloadable dataset