USC defends the belt, 39–0, at home over Occidental.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 335 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. USC went on to defend it 6 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Occidental this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Occidental and USC have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
USC defended the belt against Occidental on September 22, 1933, winning 39-0. With the victory, USC retained the belt.
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 18766) · This game in the downloadable dataset