Stanford takes the belt, 13–7, on the road at USC.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford took the belt here, ending USC’s run of 385 days and 12 defenses (reign #71) and starting reign #72. It lasted 51 days and 2 defenses, until Columbia took it on January 1, 1934.
For Stanford this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 8 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 1–0; all-time USC leads 4–3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford visited USC on November 11, 1933, and defeated the Trojans 13-7. With this on-field victory, Stanford took possession of the College Football Belt from USC.
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 19276) · This game in the downloadable dataset