Army defends the belt, 35–0, at home over Fordham.
AP poll, week 8: Fordham 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 378 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Army went on to defend it 10 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Fordham this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Army and Fordham have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army defended the College Football Belt at home against Fordham on November 5, 1949, winning 35-0 to retain the title.
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 29319) · This game in the downloadable dataset