1931 USC Trojans football team

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1931 USC Trojans football

National champion PCC champion Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 21–12 vs. Tulane
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
1931 record	10–1 (7–0 PCC)
Head coach	Howard Jones (7th season)
Offensive scheme	Single wing
Captain	Stan Williamson
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons ← 1930 1932 →

1931 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
USC $	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
California	4	–	1	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
Oregon	3	–	1	–	1	6	–	2	–	2
Washington State	4	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Washington	3	–	3	–	1	5	–	3	–	1
Stanford	2	–	2	–	1	7	–	2	–	2
Oregon State	1	–	3	–	1	6	–	3	–	1
Idaho	1	–	4	–	0	3	–	4	–	0
UCLA	0	–	3	–	0	3	–	4	–	1
Montana	0	–	5	–	0	1	–	6	–	0

$ – Conference champion

The 1931 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1931 college football season. After a season-opening loss to the Saint Mary's Gaels, USC beat the Tulane Green Wave in the 1932 Rose Bowl and won the national championship after shutting out six of its opponents.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 26	Saint Mary's*	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	L 7–13	70,000
October 3	Oregon State	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 30–0	50,000
October 10	Washington State	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 38–6	30,000
October 17	Oregon	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 53–0	50,000
October 24	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	W 6–0	53,957
November 7	Stanford	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)	W 19–0	93,000
November 14	Montana	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 69–0	25,000
November 21	at Notre Dame*	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	W 16–14	50,731
December 5	Washington	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 44–7	40,000
December 12	Georgia*	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 60–0	75,000
January 1, 1932	vs. Tulane*	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl)	W 21–12	75,562
*Non-conference game Homecoming

References[]

v t 1931 USC Trojans football—national champions
17 Erny Pinckert 30 Johnny Baker Garrett Arbelbide Dick Barber Tay Brown Byron Gentry Robert McNeish Orville Mohler Jim Musick Aaron Rosenberg Gaius Shaver Ernie Smith Stan Williamson Head coach: Howard Jones Assistant coaches Sam Barry Aubrey Devine

v t USC Trojans football
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	Bowl games Notre Dame Stanford UCLA Victory Bell Crosstown Cup
Culture & lore	Traveler George Tirebiter Giles Pellerin "Fight On" Spirit of Troy Student Body Right Tommy Trojan Athletics scandal 1967 "Game of the Century" "Bush Push" 2007 Stanford game So This Is College
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911–1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
National championship seasons in bold

v t College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)
1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1871: None 1872: Princeton 1873: Princeton 1874: Yale 1875: Harvard 1876: Yale 1877: Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton
1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton
1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton 1894: Yale 1895: Penn 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn 1898: Harvard 1899: Harvard
1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Michigan 1902: Michigan 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Penn 1905: Chicago 1906: Princeton 1907: Yale 1908: LSU / Penn 1909: Yale
1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Harvard 1914: Army 1915: Cornell 1916: Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M
1920s	1920: California 1921: California / Cornell 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton 1923: Illinois / Michigan 1924: Notre Dame 1925: Alabama 1926: Alabama / Stanford 1927: Illinois / Yale 1928: Georgia Tech 1929: Notre Dame
1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: USC 1932: USC 1933: Michigan 1934: Minnesota 1935: Minnesota

v t Pac-12 Conference football champions
Pacific Coast	Washington (1916) Washington State (1917) California (1918) Oregon & Washington (1919) California (1920) California (1921) California (1922) California (1923) Stanford (1924) Washington (1925) Stanford (1926) Idaho, Stanford, & USC (1927) USC (1928) USC (1929) Washington State (1930) USC (1931) USC (1932) Oregon & Stanford (1933) Stanford (1934) California, Stanford, & UCLA (1935) Washington (1936) California (1937) California & USC (1938) USC (1939) Stanford (1940) Oregon State (1941) UCLA (1942) USC (1943) USC (1944) USC (1945) UCLA (1946) USC (1947) California & Oregon (1948) California (1949) California (1950) Stanford (1951) USC (1952) UCLA (1953) UCLA (1954) UCLA (1955) Oregon State (1956) Oregon & Oregon State (1957) California (1958)
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