Army defends the belt, 28–0, at home over Colgate.
AP poll, week 3: Colgate unranked at Army No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 707 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Army went on to defend it 7 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Colgate this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Army and Colgate have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army defended the College Football Belt at home against Colgate on September 30, 1950, winning 28-0 to retain the title in week 3 of the regular season.
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 29615) · This game in the downloadable dataset