Stanford defends the belt, 19–15, at home over Oregon.
AP poll, week 2: Oregon No. 16 at Stanford No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 336 days into reign #85, which began with a win over USC, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Stanford went on to defend it 1 more time before Oregon State took it on October 11, 1941, 350 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Stanford hosted Oregon on September 27, 1941, in a week 2 regular season matchup. Stanford won 19-15 and retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 24308) · This game in the downloadable dataset