Oregon State takes the belt, 10–0, at home over Stanford.
AP poll, week 4: Stanford No. 9 at Oregon State unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Oregon State took the belt here, ending Stanford’s run of 350 days and 7 defenses (reign #85) and starting reign #86. It lasted 14 days and 0 defenses, until Washington State took it on October 25, 1941.
For Oregon State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
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 visited Oregon State on October 11, 1941, in a regular season matchup. Oregon State won 10-0, taking the College Football Belt from Stanford with the victory.
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 24424) · This game in the downloadable dataset