Army defends the belt, 38–0, at home over Navy.
AP poll, week 8: Navy 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 399 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. Army went on to defend it 8 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Navy this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 2–1–1; all-time Army leads 3–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the College Football Belt at home against Navy on November 26, 1949, winning 38-0 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 29499) · This game in the downloadable dataset