Army defends the belt, 21–18, at home over Navy.
AP poll, week 8: Navy 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 364 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Army went on to defend it 4 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Navy this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Army leads 3–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army hosted Navy on November 30, 1946, in a regular season matchup. Army won 21-18, retaining the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 27564) · This game in the downloadable dataset