Army defends the belt, 7–0, on the road at Stanford.
AP poll, week 9: Army No. 2 at Stanford unranked · No. 1 that week: Illinois. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 756 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. It was the last defense: Navy took the belt in the very next belt game, on December 2, 1950.
For Stanford this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 1–0; all-time Army leads 2–0.
About this game
Army visited Stanford on November 18, 1950, in a regular season game. Stanford won 7-0. 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 30047) · This game in the downloadable dataset