November 21, 1931 Week 11 · Regular Season Belt changed hands

Loyola Marymount takes the belt, 13–0, at home over Olympic Club.

Home · New Holder

Loyola Marymount 13

Away · Defending Holder

Olympic Club 0

Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

Loyola Marymount took the belt here, ending Olympic Club’s run of 14 days and 0 defenses (reign #65) and starting reign #66. It lasted 8 days and 0 defenses, until San Diego Marines took it on November 29, 1931.

For Loyola Marymount this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.

This is the only time Loyola Marymount and Olympic Club have met with the belt on the line.

Historical Note

About this game

On November 21, 1931, Loyola Marymount defeated Olympic Club 13-0 at home in week 11 of the regular season. With this victory on the field, Loyola Marymount took the college football belt from Olympic Club.

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 "Loyola Beats Olympic Club," Fresno Morning Republican, Nov. 22, 1931, p. 20 · 1931 Olympic Club Winged O football team (Wikipedia) · 1931 Loyola Lions football team (Wikipedia) · Added by hand: not in College Football Data · This game in the downloadable dataset

← Olympic Club at Saint Mary's (CA)Loyola Marymount at San Diego Marines →