Army defends the belt, 28–13, on the road at Pennsylvania.
AP poll, week 8: Army No. 3 at Pennsylvania No. 20 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 742 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. Army went on to defend it 2 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Pennsylvania this was its 39th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 3–0; all-time Army leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Army defended the belt on November 4, 1950, defeating Pennsylvania 28-13 in Philadelphia. The victory allowed Army to retain the lineal 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 29926) · This game in the downloadable dataset