Army defends the belt, 26–20, on the road at Pennsylvania.
AP poll, week 8: Army No. 3 at Pennsylvania No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Michigan. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 21 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Army went on to defend it 18 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 37th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Army visited Pennsylvania on November 13, 1948, in a regular season matchup where Army won 26-20. As the defending belt holder, Army retained the belt 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 28722) · This game in the downloadable dataset