Army defends the belt, 34–0, on the road at Columbia.
AP poll, week 7: Army No. 1 at Columbia unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 735 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Army went on to defend it 3 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Columbia this was its 19th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 2–1; all-time Army leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Army traveled to Columbia on October 28, 1950, for a regular season matchup as the defending belt holder. Columbia won the game 34-0, but the belt remained with Army since Army was the home team in the belt's lineal system at that time.
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 29862) · This game in the downloadable dataset