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Belt / 1932 season / Reign #71 · Game 556 of 1,643
October 22, 1932 Week 6 · Regular Season Belt changed hands

USC takes the belt, 13–0, on the road at Stanford.

Home · Defending Holder
Stanford 0
AT
Away · New Holder
USC 13
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

USC took the belt here, ending Stanford’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #70) and starting reign #71. It lasted 385 days and 12 defenses, until Stanford took it on November 11, 1933.

For USC this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.

It was the first of 8 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 4–3–1. Every meeting →

Historical Note

About this game

USC visited Stanford on October 22, 1932, and won 13-0. With this victory, USC took the College Football Belt from Stanford.

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 18433) · This game in the downloadable dataset