1929 Stanford football team

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1929 Stanford football
PCC co-champion
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
Record9–2 (5–1 PCC)
Head coach
Offensive scheme Double-wing
Home stadium Stanford Stadium
Seasons
  1928
1930  
1929 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 6 USC ^ + 6 1 010 2 0
Stanford + 5 1 09 2 0
No. 4 California + 4 1 07 1 1
Oregon + 4 1 07 3 0
Washington State 4 2 010 2 0
UCLA 1 3 04 4 0
Oregon State 1 4 05 4 0
Idaho 1 4 04 5 0
Montana 0 4 13 5 1
Washington 0 5 12 6 1
  • + Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Selected as Rose Bowl representative
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1929 college football season. In head coach Pop Warner's sixth season, Stanford finished as a Pacific Coast Conference co-champion. [1] [2] The team played its home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21 West Coast Army *W 45–0
September 28 Olympic Club *
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 6–0
October 5 Oregon
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 33–7 [3]
October 12at UCLA W 57–020,000 [4]
October 19 Oregon State
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 40–7
October 26 USC
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA (rivalry)
L 0–789,000
November 2 Caltech *
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 39–0
November 9at Washington W 6–015,474
November 16 Santa Clara *
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
L 7–13 [5]
November 23 California
W 21–6
December 28 Army *
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 34–13
  • *Non-conference game
  • Source: [6]

References

  1. "Coast Season Ends with Four-Way Tie". The Oregonian . December 2, 1929. Retrieved December 9, 2024. The Pacific coast conference football season ended last week with four teams, Southern California, Stanford, California, and Oregon tied for first place.
  2. Leiser, William (December 18, 1929). "Move to Open Grid Season Earlier Killed By Conference". The San Francisco Examiner . Retrieved December 9, 2024. The 1929 football championship was officially designated a four-way tie between Oregon, California, Stanford and USC.
  3. "Cards swamp Webfooters by score of 33–7". The Morning Astorian. October 6, 1929. Retrieved June 16, 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Paul Lowry (October 13, 1929). "Stanford Warriors Easily Rout Bruins, 57 to 0". Los Angeles Times via Newspapers.com.
  5. Jack Hodges (November 17, 1929). "Santa Clara Upsets Stanford Cardinals, Score, 13-7: Aerial Attack Nets Broncs Both Scores; Victorious Pass, Mettler to Simoni, Comes in Fourth Period of Contest". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. 39, 40 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 19291933". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2013.