Stanford at USC

Saturday, November 7, 1931 Share

USC beat Stanford 19–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, USC led the series 9–⁠2–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayStanford7–⁠2–⁠2 in 1931

HomeUSC10–⁠1 in 1931

FinalHigh 71°F, low 58°FAttendance 93,000

In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1931, page 5 (results column)
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FOOTBALL ]! 4’13J1lE1| The following are scores of the principal football games played last Saturday afternoon in various sec tions of the country: Louisiana 0; Army 20. Georgia T; New York University 6. Indiana O.; Michigan g. Virginia 0; Columbia 27. Lehigh l9; Princeton T. Villanova T; Temple 13 Dartmouth 6; Harvard ‘. Navy 0; Ohio State 2. Carnegie Tech 6; Pittsburgh A.. Nebraska 2; Iowa 0. Pennsylvania 0; Notre Dame 49. st. Johns GMaryland) o; Yale 52. Ohio 27; DePauw 0. Iowa State ‘; Kansas Aggie5 6. Arkansas 13; Chicago 13. Wisconsin T; Illinois 6. Kansas 0; Oklahoma 10. Utah 28; Colorado College 6. Idaho 8; Washington State 9. University of Washington 0; Cal ifornia 13. Montana 0; Oregon State 13. Stanford 0; Southern California 19. Swarthmore 0; Delaware 26. Ripon O; Michigan 100. Alfred 0; Cornell 54. Detroit g.; Fordham 30. Bucknell T; Georgetown 0. Washington and Jefferson G.; Marquette 13. Duke 2; Kentucky 0. Centenary 6; Purdue 49. Northwestern 32; Minnesota 14.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

On the newsreel

RECORD CROWD SEES TROJAN CINCH TITLE BY STANFORD DEFEATHoward Jones’ University of Southern California stars led by Orvil Mohler administer a crushing 19-0 beating to Pop Warner’s Stanford team and put themselves into undisputed leadership for the Pacific Coast Conference…Universal Newsreel, November 9, 1931. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

USC 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Stanford–USC game

Officially, USC leads 65–⁠34–⁠3; as played, 66–⁠33–⁠3 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 103 meetings, counting the 90 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023	USC 56, Stanford 10
2022	USC 41, Stanford 28
2021	Stanford 42, USC 28
2019	USC 45, Stanford 20
2018	Stanford 17, USC 3
2017	USC 31, Stanford 28	Pac-12 Championship Game