Navy takes the belt, 14–2, at home over Army.
AP poll, week 9: Army No. 2 at Navy unranked · No. 1 that week: Illinois. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy took the belt here, ending Army’s run of 770 days and 21 defenses (reign #99) and starting reign #100. It lasted 308 days and 1 defense, until Princeton took it on October 6, 1951.
For Navy this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Army led the belt series 3–1–1; all-time Army leads 3–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Navy defeated Army 14-2 on December 2, 1950, in the regular season finale. With this victory on the field, Navy claimed the College Football Belt from Army.
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 30167) · This game in the downloadable dataset