Army defends the belt, 13–0, at home over Villanova.
AP poll, week 3: Villanova unranked at Army No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 665 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Army went on to defend it 3 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Villanova this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 2–0.
About this game
Army defended the College Football Belt on September 27, 1947, defeating visiting Villanova 13-0 in week 3 of the regular season.
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 27654) · This game in the downloadable dataset