Army defends the belt, 47–7, at home over Davidson.
AP poll, week 3: Davidson unranked at Army No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 336 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Army went on to defend it 16 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Davidson this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Army and Davidson have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army hosted Davidson on September 24, 1949, in a regular season matchup. Army won 47-7, successfully defending the college football 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 28940) · This game in the downloadable dataset