American college football season
1928 USC Trojans football Conference Pacific Coast Conference 1928 record 9–0–1 (4–0–1 PCC) Head coach Howard Jones (4th season)Offensive scheme Single wing Home stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Seasons
1928 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
USC $
4
–
0
–
1
9
–
0
–
1
California ^
3
–
0
–
2
6
–
2
–
2
Stanford
4
–
1
–
1
8
–
3
–
1
Oregon
4
–
2
–
0
9
–
2
–
0
Washington State
4
–
3
–
0
7
–
3
–
0
Oregon State
2
–
3
–
0
6
–
3
–
0
Idaho
2
–
3
–
0
3
–
4
–
1
Washington
2
–
4
–
0
7
–
4
–
0
UCLA
0
–
4
–
0
4
–
4
–
1
Montana
0
–
5
–
0
4
–
5
–
1
$ – Conference champion ^ – Selected as Rose Bowl representative (USC declined)
The 1928 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 1928 college football season . The Trojans went undefeated and won the Pacific Coast Conference championship, but declined to participate in the 1929 Rose Bowl , which California attended in their place. Although the team did not attend a bowl, USC claims a national championship , and was ranked first in the Dickinson System rankings for 1928.
Schedule [ ]
Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 29 Utah Agricultural * Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 40–1232,000 [1]
October 6 Oregon State Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 19–050,000
October 13 Saint Mary's * Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 19–640,000
October 20 at California California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA T 0–074,245
October 27 Occidental * Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 19–040,000
November 3 Stanford Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (rivalry ) W 10–080,000
November 10 Arizona * Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 78–720,000
November 17 Washington State Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 27–1333,000
November 24 Idaho Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA W 28–710,000
December 1 Notre Dame * Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (rivalry ) W 27–1472,632
*Non-conference game Homecoming
References [ ]
Marger Apsit
Nate Barragar
Ward Bond
Jesse Hibbs
Jess Hill
Russ Saunders
Assistant coaches
Leo Calland
Jeff Cravath
Aubrey Devine
Venues
Athletic Park (1895–98)
Fiesta Park (1897–98, 1902, 1904–06, 1916)
Chutes Park (1900)
Prager Park (1903)
Bovard Field (1904–10, 1914–15, 1917–22)
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1923–present)
Jones Field/Kennedy Field (practice)
Bowls & rivalries Culture & lore People Seasons National championship seasons in bold
1869–1879 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Pacific Coast AAWU
UCLA , USC , & Washington (1959)
Washington (1960)
UCLA (1961)
USC (1962)
Washington (1963)
Oregon State & USC (1964)
UCLA (1965)
USC (1966)
USC (1967)
Pacific-8
USC (1968)
USC (1969)
Stanford (1970)
Stanford (1971)
USC (1972)
USC (1973)
USC (1974)
California & UCLA (1975)
USC (1976)
Washington (1977)
Pacific-10
USC (1978)
USC (1979)
Washington (1980)
Washington (1981)
UCLA (1982)
UCLA (1983)
USC (1984)
UCLA (1985)
Arizona State (1986)
USC & UCLA (1987)
USC (1988)
USC (1989)
Washington (1990)
Washington (1991)
Washington & Stanford (1992)
Arizona , UCLA , & USC (1993)
Oregon (1994)
USC & Washington (1995)
Arizona State (1996)
UCLA & Washington State (1997)
UCLA (1998)
Stanford (1999)
Oregon , Oregon State , & Washington (2000)
Oregon (2001)
USC & Washington State (2002)
USC (2003)
USC (2004) vacated
USC (2005) vacated
California & USC (2006)
Arizona State & USC (2007)
USC (2008)
Oregon (2009)
Oregon (2010)
Pac-12
Oregon (2011)
Stanford (2012)
Stanford (2013)
Oregon (2014)
Stanford (2015)
Washington (2016)
USC (2017)
Washington (2018)
Oregon (2019)
Oregon (2020)
Utah (2021)
National championships in bold