Stanford defends the belt, 7–3, at home over California.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 14 days into reign #72, which began with a win over USC, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Columbia took the belt in the very next belt game, on January 1, 1934.
For California this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Stanford leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford defended the College Football Belt against California on November 25, 1933, winning 7-3 to retain the title.
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 19393) · This game in the downloadable dataset