Army takes the belt, 27–6, on the road at Cornell.
AP poll, week 7: Army No. 3 at Cornell No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Michigan. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army took the belt here, ending Cornell’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #98) and starting reign #99. It lasted 770 days and 21 defenses, until Navy took it on December 2, 1950.
For Army this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
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 visited Cornell on October 23, 1948, and defeated the belt-holder 27-6 to claim the lineal championship. The victory marked Army's takeover of the College Football Belt in week 7 of the 1948 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 28534) · This game in the downloadable dataset