Army defends the belt, 40–0, at home over Virginia Tech.
AP poll, week 6: Virginia Tech unranked at Army No. 13 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 686 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. It was the last defense: Columbia took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 25, 1947.
For Virginia Tech this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 2–0.
About this game
Army defeated visiting Virginia Tech 40-0 on October 18, 1947, in week 6 of the regular season. Army was defending the belt 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 27844) · This game in the downloadable dataset