Army defends the belt, 54–14, on the road at Harvard.
AP poll, week 6: Army No. 2 at Harvard unranked · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 357 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Army went on to defend it 13 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 27th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 10 times before.
It was the 6th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–0; all-time Harvard leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the belt against Harvard on October 15, 1949, winning 54-14 to retain it.
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 29136) · This game in the downloadable dataset