Army defends the belt, 14–13, on the road at Pennsylvania.
AP poll, week 8: Army No. 4 at Pennsylvania unranked · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 385 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Army went on to defend it 9 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 38th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 2–0; all-time Army leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the belt on November 12, 1949, traveling to Pennsylvania for a regular season matchup. The Cadets won 14-13 to retain the lineal 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 29382) · This game in the downloadable dataset