Army retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Illinois.
AP poll, week 5: Army No. 9 at Illinois No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 679 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Army went on to defend it 1 more time before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Illinois this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
This is the only time Army and Illinois have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army visited Illinois on October 11, 1947, in a week 5 regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Army retained the belt as the holder.
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 27789) · This game in the downloadable dataset