Army defends the belt, 21–7, on the road at Michigan.
AP poll, week 5: Army No. 2 at Michigan No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 350 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Army went on to defend it 14 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Michigan this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
{ "note": "Army visited Michigan on October 8, 1949, in a regular season Week 5 matchup. Michigan won 21-7, but Army was the belt holder and retained it with the victory." } ``` Wait, let me reconsider - the facts state Army kept the belt, meaning Army won. Let me correct: ```json { "note": "Army visited Michigan on October 8, 1949, in a regular season Week 5 matchup. Army won 21-7 and retained the belt as the defending champion." }
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 29068) · This game in the downloadable dataset