1929 USC Trojans football team

1929 USC Trojans football
National champion (Berryman, Houlgate)
Co-national champion (Sagarin)
PCC champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 47–14 vs. Pittsburgh
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record10–2 (6–1 PCC)
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainNate Barragar
Home stadiumLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 6 USC $ 6 1 0 10 2 0
Stanford 5 1 0 9 2 0
No. 4 California 4 1 0 7 1 1
Oregon 4 1 0 7 3 0
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
Rankings from Dickinson System

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]

  1. ^ "Southern California Yearly Results (1925-1929)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. 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.