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Belt / 1932 season / Reign #69 · Game 553 of 1,637
October 1, 1932 Week 3 · Regular Season Belt changed hands

West Coast Army takes the belt, 7–6, on the road at Fresno State.

Home · Defending Holder
Fresno State 6
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Away · New Holder
West Coast Army 7
Belt context

Where this game sits in the lineage

West Coast Army took the belt here, ending Fresno State’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #68) and starting reign #69. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Stanford took it on October 15, 1932.

For West Coast Army this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.

This is the only time Fresno State and West Coast Army have met with the belt on the line.

Historical Note

About this game

On October 1, 1932, West Coast Army defeated Fresno State 7-6 in a regular season game to claim the College Football Belt. The away team's victory on the field transferred the belt from Fresno State to West Coast Army.

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 "Football Finds," Fresno Bee/The Republican, Oct. 2, 1932, p. 13 · 1932 West Coast Army football team (Wikipedia) · 1932 Fresno State Bulldogs football team (Wikipedia) · Added by hand: not in College Football Data · This game in the downloadable dataset