Army defends the belt, 47–0, at home over Colorado.
AP poll, week 4: Colorado unranked at Army No. 10 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 672 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Army went on to defend it 2 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Colorado this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Army and Colorado have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army defended the belt at home against Colorado on October 4, 1947, winning decisively 47-0 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 27715) · This game in the downloadable dataset