Army defends the belt, 49–7, at home over Virginia Tech.
AP poll, week 8: Virginia Tech unranked at Army No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Michigan. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 7 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Army went on to defend it 20 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Virginia Tech this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
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 defended the College Football Belt on October 30, 1948, defeating Virginia Tech 49-7 at home in a regular season matchup. The decisive victory allowed Army to retain possession of the belt.
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 28594) · This game in the downloadable dataset