Olympic Club takes the belt, 10–0, on the road at Saint Mary's (CA).
Where this game sits in the lineage
Olympic Club took the belt here, ending Saint Mary's (CA)’s run of 357 days and 7 defenses (reign #64) and starting reign #65. It lasted 14 days and 0 defenses, until Loyola Marymount took it on November 21, 1931.
For Olympic Club this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Olympic Club and Saint Mary's (CA) have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On November 7, 1931, Olympic Club defeated Saint Mary's (CA) 10-0 in a regular season game. With this victory, Olympic Club took the College Football Belt from Saint Mary's (CA).
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 17906) · This game in the downloadable dataset