Stanford defends the belt, 33–0, at home over UCLA.
AP poll, week 3: UCLA unranked at Stanford No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 343 days into reign #85, which began with a win over USC, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. It was the last defense: Oregon State took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 11, 1941.
For UCLA this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 1–0; all-time Stanford leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford defended the belt at home against UCLA on October 4, 1941, winning 33-0 in week 3 of the regular season. The shutout victory allowed Stanford 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 24371) · This game in the downloadable dataset