Army defends the belt, 19–0, at home over Duke.
AP poll, week 7: Duke 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 329 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Army went on to defend it 8 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Duke this was its 3rd 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 it is 1–1.
About this game
Army defended the College Football Belt against Duke on October 26, 1946, winning 19-0 at home in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Army retained possession of the 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 27263) · This game in the downloadable dataset