USC defends the belt, 14–7, at home over Saint Mary's (CA).
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 357 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. USC went on to defend it 2 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Saint Mary's (CA) this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Saint Mary's (CA) led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
On October 14, 1933, USC defeated visiting Saint Mary's (CA) 14-7 in a regular season matchup. The defending belt holder USC retained the championship 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 19008) · This game in the downloadable dataset