1929 USC Trojans football team

1929 USC Trojans football
National champion (Berryman, Houlgate) Co-national champion (Sagarin) Pacific Coast Conference champion Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl vs. Pittsburgh, W 47–14
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
1929 record	10–2 (6–1 PCC)
Head coach	Howard Jones (5th year)
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

1929 PCC football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
USC $	6	–	1	–	0			10	–	2	–	0
Stanford	5	–	1	–	0			9	–	2	–	0
Oregon	4	–	1	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
California	4	–	1	–	0			7	–	1	–	1
Washington State	4	–	2	–	0			10	–	2	–	0
UCLA	1	–	3	–	0			4	–	4	–	0
Oregon State	1	–	4	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Idaho	1	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
Montana	0	–	4	–	1			3	–	5	–	1
Washington	0	–	5	–	1			2	–	6	–	1
$ – Conference champion

The 1929 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1929 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Howard Jones, the Trojans compiled a 10–2 record (6–1 against conference opponents), won the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 492 to 69.^[1] The team defeated Pittsburgh 47–14 in the 1930 Rose Bowl and was retroactively selected as the 1929 national champion under the Houlgate System and also retroactively selected as the national champion under the Berryman QPRS system and as a co-national champion by Jeff Sagarin.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 28	UCLA	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Victory Bell)	W 76–0	50,000
October 5	Oregon State	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 19–0	40,000
October 12	at Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	W 48–0	23,582
October 19	Occidental*	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 64–0	20,000
October 26	at Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Palo Alto, CA	W 7–0	89,000
November 2	California	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	L 7–15	79,000
November 9	Nevada*	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 66–0	20,000
November 16	vs. Notre Dame*	Soldier Field • Chicago, IL (Jeweled Shillelagh)	L 12–13	112,912
November 23	Idaho	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 72–0	20,000
November 30	Washington State	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 27–7	55,000
December 14	Carnegie Tech*	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 45–13	65,000
January 1	vs. Pittsburgh*	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl)	W 47–14	72,000
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

References

1. "Southern California Yearly Results (1925-1929)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 109. Retrieved January 8, 2016.