Army defends the belt, 63–6, at home over Columbia.
AP poll, week 7: Columbia unranked at Army No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 364 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Army went on to defend it 12 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 18th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Army leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the Belt at home against Columbia on October 22, 1949, winning 63-6 to retain the championship.
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 29197) · This game in the downloadable dataset