The 1929 season
582 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Notre Dame claims the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Big Six
- Nebraska
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Drake
- Pacific Coast Conference
- California, Oregon, Stanford and USC (shared)
- Rocky Mountain Conference
- Utah
- Southern Conference
- Tulane
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Chattanooga
- Southwest Conference
- TCU
- Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Texas State
- Virginia Conference
- William & Mary
- Western Conference
- Purdue
Small college
- Big Four
- Tulsa
- Buckeye Conference
- Ohio
- Far Western Conference
- UC Davis
- Michigan Collegiate Conference
- Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan (shared)
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- St. Thomas (MN)
- Mississippi Valley Conference
- Memphis
- North Central Conference
- North Dakota
- Northwest Ohio League
- Bowling Green and Toledo (shared)
From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.
Consensus All-Americans
- EJoe Donchess, Pittsburgh
- EWes Fesler, Ohio State
- FBBronko Nagurski, Minnesota
- OTElmer Sleight, Purdue
- OGJack Cannon, Notre Dame
- OGRay Montgomery, Pittsburgh
- CBen Ticknor, Harvard
- QBFrank Carideo, Notre Dame
- RBRed Cagle, Army
- RBGene McEver, Tennessee
- FBRalph Welch, Purdue
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1929 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1929 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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so. CALIF RNIA STANFORD. Strength of Two Most Pow erful Teams Shown by 7 to 0 Score STANFORD STADIUM, Cal, Oct. 28.-Over the center line Saturday afternoon shot a short pass and with the ball rode the hopes of Southern California and Stanford and fate. A swift IA yard toss in the second period that nestled in the arms of Tappap for a 10-yard dash to a touchdown closed all thrills and chills of the football game in one breath-taking moment and brought Southern California a victory in the greatest midseason c-ass-c witnessed in the Far West. Eiglty-nine thousand persons gripped their seats at the fierce ness of the play which revealed the strength of the two most powerful elevens assembled under the colcrS of the two schools. Stanford’s hopes waned as the last quarter closed while Southern California burst forth with drive nearly resulting in another score, driving the weary Stanford men near. the goal line where at the en- treaties of thousands of supporters the line finally held. The score was ‘ to 0.
Bowls and playoff
Scoreboard| Jan 1, 1930 | USC 47, Pittsburgh 14Rose Bowl |