Navy defends the belt, 10–0, at home over Army.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 21 days into reign #25, which began with a win over Swarthmore, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Navy went on to defend it 5 more times before Harvard took it on October 19, 1907, 343 days after the reign began.
For Army this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 3–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Navy defeated Army 10-0 on December 1, 1906, in the regular season finale. As the belt holder, Navy successfully defended its title 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 5475) · This game in the downloadable dataset