Army defends the belt, 41–7, at home over Penn State.
AP poll, week 4: Penn State 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 714 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. Army went on to defend it 6 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 2–0.
About this game
Army hosted Penn State on October 7, 1950, in a regular season matchup. Army won 41-7 to retain the College Football Belt.
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 29674) · This game in the downloadable dataset