Army retains the belt after a 21–21 tie with Navy.
AP poll, week 8: Army No. 3 at Navy unranked · No. 1 that week: Michigan. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 35 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Army went on to defend it 17 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Navy this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 2–1; all-time Army leads 3–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army visited Navy on November 27, 1948, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 21-21 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Army retained the belt as the holder.
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 28851) · This game in the downloadable dataset