Columbia takes the belt, 21–20, at home over Army.
AP poll, week 7: Army No. 11 at Columbia No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Columbia took the belt here, ending Army’s run of 693 days and 14 defenses (reign #95) and starting reign #96. It lasted 343 days and 5 defenses, until Harvard took it on October 2, 1948.
For Columbia this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army visited Columbia on October 25, 1947, in a regular season matchup. Columbia won 21-20, taking the College Football Belt from Army 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 27914) · This game in the downloadable dataset