Army defends the belt, 49–0, on the road at Harvard.
AP poll, week 6: Army No. 2 at Harvard unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 728 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 16 defenses already behind it; this was its 17th defense. Army went on to defend it 4 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Harvard this was its 28th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 10 times before.
It was the 7th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Harvard led the belt series 5–1; all-time Harvard leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Army visited Harvard on October 21, 1950, in a regular season matchup. Harvard won 49-0. Army held the belt entering the game and retained it with the victory.
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 29799) · This game in the downloadable dataset