Army defends the belt, 51–0, at home over New Mexico.
AP poll, week 9: New Mexico unranked at Army No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Illinois. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 749 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 19 defenses already behind it; this was its 20th defense. Army went on to defend it 1 more time before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For New Mexico this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Army and New Mexico have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army defended the Belt against New Mexico on November 11, 1950, defeating the visiting Lobos 51-0 to retain the title.
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 29984) · This game in the downloadable dataset