Duke defends the belt, 33–14, at home over Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Duke came in 7 days into reign #156, which began with a win over Purdue, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Clemson took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 19, 1974.
For Army this was its 13th 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 it is 1–1.
About this game
Duke defended the belt at home on October 12, 1974, defeating Army 33-14 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Duke retained possession of 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 45063) · This game in the downloadable dataset