Army defends the belt, 27–6, at home over Michigan.
AP poll, week 5: Michigan No. 14 at Army No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Illinois. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 721 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Army went on to defend it 5 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Michigan this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 2–0; all-time Army leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the belt against visiting Michigan on October 14, 1950, winning 27-6 to retain the 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 29738) · This game in the downloadable dataset