Year: | 1929 |
Team: | USC Trojans |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Pacific Coast Conference |
Short Conf: | PCC |
Record: | 10–2 |
Conf Record: | 6–1 |
Head Coach: | Howard Jones |
Hc Year: | 5th |
Off Scheme: | Single-wing |
Captain: | Nate Barragar |
Stadium: | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum |
Champion: | National champion (Berryman, Houlgate) Co-national champion (Sagarin) PCC champion Rose Bowl champion |
Bowl: | Rose Bowl |
Bowl Result: | W 47–14 vs. Pittsburgh |
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]