Army defends the belt, 19–0, at home over West Virginia.
AP poll, week 8: West Virginia 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 336 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Army went on to defend it 7 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For West Virginia this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Army and West Virginia have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army defended the belt at home against West Virginia on November 2, 1946, winning 19-0 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 27326) · This game in the downloadable dataset