USC defends the belt, 6–3, on the road at California.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 371 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. It was the last defense: Stanford took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 11, 1933.
For California this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 1–0; all-time USC leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
USC visited California on October 28, 1933, in a week 7 regular season matchup. California defeated USC 6-3. As the belt's defending holder, USC retained the belt 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 19142) · This game in the downloadable dataset