Army defends the belt, 34–7, on the road at Pennsylvania.
AP poll, week 8: Army No. 1 at Pennsylvania No. 14 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 350 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Army went on to defend it 5 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 36th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Army visited Pennsylvania on November 16, 1946, in a regular season matchup. Pennsylvania won 34-7. Army held the belt coming into the game and retained it with the victory.
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 27446) · This game in the downloadable dataset