Army defends the belt, 43–0, at home over Stanford.
AP poll, week 8: Stanford 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 14 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Army went on to defend it 19 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Stanford this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
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 Stanford 43-0 on November 6, 1948, in regular season week 9 play. The defending belt holder preserved its title with the shutout 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 28659) · This game in the downloadable dataset