USC at California
Saturday, October 28, 1933 Share
USC beat California 6–3. It was their 20th meeting; after it, California led the series 8–6–2 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 55°F, 0.1 in. of rainAttendance 65,000
In the newspapers

The Washington times, October 31, 1933, page 26
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College Football Fronts Gaels of st. Mary’S continued their Journey Eastward today 10 meet the Fordham football team in New York Saturday. EAsTON, Pa, Oct. 31.-Lafayette, very much in the foot ball picture by virtue Of holding Colgate to a scoreless tie, will have full strength to throw against Penn in Philadelphia on Saturday. Nesi, star guard, and Bialek var. sity fullback, have recovered ano other slightly injured players will ioin the squad later in the week. PHILADELPHIA, Oct., 31.-Joe Burke, veteran Penn oarsman, may get the right tackle berth on the Red and Blue squad: Burke was worked yesterday at that Job in place of Paul King. Burke, a senior from Beverly, N. j., weighs 1875 pounds. WEST POINT, N. Y, Oct. 81 Army was to begin working today on defenses against Harvard plays. The cadets play Coe College Gowa) this Saturday, but will devote all their practice this week to the game against the Crimson scheduled for November II. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct, 81 Scrimmage against a yearllng eleven using Ohio State plays was to occupy the Indiana foot ball team today. Coach E. c.. Hayes also stressed the punting of Bob Jones. with linemen and backs practicing protecting him until the kicks were away. MADISON, Wis, Oct. 31-Two more Wisconsin regulars were on the casualty list today as the varsity faced freshman inter pretations of Chicago plays in scrimmage. Capt. Hal Smith, fullback, has a neck injury and George Deanovitch, end, has a sprained ankle. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31.-With Coats and Nordli, centers, on the injured list, Coach William H. Spaulding, of the University of California, at Los Angeles today planned to use Trotter, weight 220 pounds, as the pivot Saturday against the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley. LOS ANGELES, Oct., 31-Resting a day after the bitter fought 6–3 game won from the University of California at Berkeley. the University of Southern California TrojanS today resumed rehearsalS for the Stanford game here Arm istice day. The Trojans are idle Saturday.

The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, October 30, 1933, page 1
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lrv Warburton, Slight Quarter. back, Runs 50 Yards for Touchdown Berkeley, Calf, Oct. 3o.-lR-A Trojan will o. the wisp” known a. Irwin Wurburton popped out Of 4 ; tangle Of arms and legs Saturday Ia dash 90 yards to the goal and bring 6 to 3 victory to Southern California over CALIFORNIA; Bears. Seventy thousand cheering fans had sat through three full periods and five minutes Of the final quarter Of what appeared destined to be an amazing reversal Of form ana the first defeat Of the Trojan forces In ~ games. The Bears were battling their traditional football foes on bet ter than even terms by the margin Of field goal scored by Arleigh VIII liams, sub halfback, in the first pc Rod. The downfall of last years ma tional mythical champion and two year holder of the Pacific coast conference title, seemed imminent. With . suddenness that left Bear support ers speechless. the picture changed Down on the slippery turf, the mighty mite Of far western grid irons clutched the pigskin. It was q cutback play. Warburton headed toward the right. His cleats dug In and he was off toward the left. A hole opened in the line. War burton swerved and lodged. Halt q dozen eager Bear tacklers clutched at him. Out in the open. the Trojan quarterback fairly flew. The Bears In pursuit had no chance against a player who is . good quarter miller. Stevens failed to kick the goal on the try for point, but Southern Cali forniA’S remarkable string Of games without defeat had been raised to n. Warburton also just narrowly missed becoming the goat. Shortly before the close OF the game, he muffed . rolling punt. McNeish OF q. 8. G. recovered on his own five ward line.
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
USC 74% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every USC–California gameOfficially, USC leads 72–32–6; as played, 72–31–5 in the 108 games on file; the official count covers all 112 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.
| 2023 | USC 50, California 49 | |
| 2022 | USC 41, California 35 | |
| 2021 | California 24, USC 14 | |
| 2019 | USC 41, California 17 | |
| 2018 | California 15, USC 14 | |
| 2017 | USC 30, California 20 |
Around this game
USC
- Next gamevs. StanfordNov. 11, 1933
- SeasonUSC in 1933
- ProgramUSC history and records
California
- Next gameat UCLANov. 4, 1933
- SeasonCalifornia in 1933
- ProgramCalifornia history and records

