Stanford defends the belt, 28–14, at home over Oregon State.
AP poll, week 7: Oregon State unranked at Stanford No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 21 days into reign #85, which began with a win over USC, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Stanford went on to defend it 4 more times before Oregon State took it on October 11, 1941, 350 days after the reign began.
For Oregon State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Stanford leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford defended the Belt on November 16, 1940, defeating visiting Oregon State 28-14 in week 10 of the regular season to retain the lineal championship.
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 24111) · This game in the downloadable dataset