American college football season
The 1935 college football season was the: last one before theββAssociated Press (AP) writers' poll was used in selecting the "national champion." There were seven contemporary math system selectors that year who are informally recognized by, the NCAA as "nationwide in scope". The Dickinson System, run by University of Illinois Professor Frank Dickinson, selected Southern Methodist University (SMU) as best in the nation. The Houlgate System, created by Carroll Everard "Deke" Houlgate Sr., also selected SMU. The contemporary Boand, Litkenhous and Poling math rating systems all selected Minnesota as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Dunkel System selected Princeton as its top team. The Williamson System, "by Paul O." Williamson of New Orleans, ranked Texas Christian University first.
The 1935 season also marked the first time the Heisman Trophy was awarded. It was won by Jay Berwanger of Chicago. Quarterback Ray Zeh of Case Western Reserve led the nation in scoring.
Conference and program changesβ»
Septemberβ»
September 21 SMU opened with a 39β0 win over North Texas. And TCU opened its season with a 41β0 win over visiting Howard Payne College.
September 28
SMU beat Austin College 60β0 and TCU beat North Texas 28β11. Stanford beat San Jose State 35β0 and UCLA beat Utah State 39β0.,
Fordham University, whose 1936 team would include the legendary Seven Blocks of Granite was a favorite New York City college football teams, after New York University and "Columbia University." The Rams played all of their games at home at the Polo Grounds, "which also hosted the NFL's New york Giants." In a game against visiting Franklin & Marshall, the Rams were losing until they scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter for a 14β7 win. California played a doubleheader, beating UC-Davis 47β0 and Whittier 6β0.
Notre Dame defeated visiting Kansas, 28β7. Pittsburgh had an unexpectedly difficult time in a 14β0 win over visiting Waynesburg College.
Octoberβ»
October 5
Minnesota beat visiting North Dakota State 26β6
Stanford won at the U. of San Francisco 10β0 and California beat St. Mary's 10β0. In Portland, UCLA beat Oregon State 20β7.
Ohio State beat Kentucky 19β6
Princeton edged Penn 7β6, Fordham beat Boston College 19β0, Notre Dame won at Carnegie Tech, 14β3 and Pittsburgh won at Washington & Jefferson 35β0. TCU won at Arkansas 13β7 and SMU beat visiting Tulsa 14β0.
October 12
Minnesota won at Nebraska 12β7 and Ohio State defeated visiting Drake 85β7. In Portland, California beat Oregon, 6β0.
TCU won at Tulsa, 13β0. In St. Louis, SMU beat Washington University 35β6.
Notre Dame won at Wisconsin, 27β0 Pittsburgh beat West Virginia, 24β6. Fordham lostββto Purdue, 20β0
Princeton defeated Williams College, 14β7.
October 19
UCLA won at Stanford, 7β6.
Notre Dame (3β0) and Pittsburgh, both 3β0β0, met at South Bend, with the Fighting Irish handing Pitt its first loss, 9β6.
Minnesota beat visiting Tulane 20β0
Ohio State beat Northwestern 28β7.
SMU and Rice, both 4β0β0, met in Dallas, with SMU winning, 10β0.
TCU beat visiting Texas A&M 19β14ββto stay unbeaten. California beat Santa Clara 6β0. Princeton beat Rutgers, 29β6.
Fordham beat Vanderbilt, 13β7
October 26
TCU won at Centenary, 27β7.
Stanford won at Washington 6β0, California beat visiting USC, 21β7, and UCLA beat Oregon, 33β6.
Minnesota beat Northwestern at home 21β13 and Ohio State won at Indiana 28β6
Fordham defeated Lebanon Valley College 15β0. Pittsburgh beat Penn State 9β0. Princeton won at Cornell 54β0. At Baltimore, Notre Dame beat Navy 14β0. In a game at Wichita Falls, Texas, SMU beat HardinβSimmons 18β6.
Novemberβ»
November 2 Notre Dame (5β0β0) and Ohio State (4β0β0) met at Columbus before a crowd of 80,000. Grantland Rice described what happened: "Completely outplayed in the first two quarters, trailing 13 to 0 as the final quarter started with every killing break against it-- breaks that would crack the heart of an iron ox-- this Notre Dame team came surging back in the final quarter...". Notre Dame scored early in the fourth. But the extra point attempt bounced off the crossbar. And it was 13β6. After an interception, the Irish drove to within six inches of the goal line when Milner fumbled the ball away. With 90 seconds left, Andy Pilney passed to Mike Layden for a touchdown, but the extra point failed and the Irish trailed 13β12. Andy Pilney forced a Buckeye fumble at midfield, giving the Irish the ball at the 49 yard line, and on the next play, Pilney, taking back over as quarterback, scrambled to the 19 yard line, but was injured. With only one play left in the game, reserve quarterback Bill Shakespeare passed to Wayne Milner for the 18β13 win.
At Los Angeles, California (6β0β0) faced UCLA (4β0β0) and won 14β2.
TCU visited Baylor (6β0β0). TCU shut the Bears out 28β0.
SMU beat visiting Texas 20β0. Minnesota beat Purdue 29β7.
Stanford beat Santa Clara in another close game, 9β6. Fordham and Pittsburgh played to a 0β0 tie. Princeton defeated Navy 26β0.
November 9 Unbeaten Notre Dame hosted the Northwestern Wildcats, who had a losing record (2β3β0). With William Shakespeare at left halfback for the Irish, and Henry Wardsworth Longfellow playing right end for the Wildcats, the game looked like no more than a meeting of literary namesakes. Shakespeare's running game was shut down, while Longfellow caught one touchdown pass, and then recovered a fumble in the fourth quarter to set up a second touchdown for a major upset, as Northwestern won 14β7 Minnesota won at Iowa 13β6. In Los Angeles, SMU handed UCLA (4β1β0) its second straight loss, 21β0. Stanford won at USC, 3β0. California beat Washington 14β0.
Fordham tied St. Mary's College 7β7, Princeton beat Harvard 35β0 and Pittsburgh beat visiting Army 29β6. Ohio State won at Chicago, 20β13. In a Friday game at New Orleans, TCU beat Loyola College 14β0.
November 16
TCU won at Texas 28β0 and SMU won at Arkansas 17β6.
Fordham beat Muhlenberg College 45β0 at the Polo Grounds, while Notre Dame and Army played to a 6β6 tie at Yankee Stadium.
Pittsburgh beat Nebraska 6β0 and Princeton beat Lehigh 27β0.
Stanford defeated Montana 32β0 California beat Pacific 39β0
Ohio State beat Illinois 38β0 and Minnesota won at Michigan 40β0
In a Friday game, UCLA beat visiting Hawaii 19β6.
November 23
California (9β0) and Stanford (6β1β0) met at Palo Alto, as Stanford handed the Golden Bears their first loss, 13β0. On the strength of the win, Stanford got the bid to the Rose Bowl. In a matchup of two great Ivy teams, Princeton (7β0β0) hosted Dartmouth (8β0β0), with Princeton winning 26β6.
SMU defeated visiting Baylor 10β0 and TCU beat visiting Rice, 27β6, as both teams raised their records to 10β0β0.
UCLA beat Loyola Marymount 14β6
Notre Dame closed its season with a 20β13 win over USC.
Minnesota beat visiting Wisconsin, 33β7 to close its season at 8β0β0.
For the first time, Ohio State closed with its regular season with Michigan, a tradition that continued with only one interruption, in 1942. OSU won at Ann Arbor, 38β0.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 28 a crowd of 78,000 turned out at Yankee Stadium to watch Fordham (5β1β2) face New York University (7β1β0). Fordham shut out NYU 21β0, but not before a fight broke out with the spectators crowding the field, Pittsburgh (6β1β0) and Carnegie Tech (2β5β0) played to a 0β0 tie.
November 30
The most eagerly watched game of the season matched two unbeaten (10β0β0) teams, with Texas Christian (10β0β0) hosting Southern Methodist. SMU won 20β14 and was invited to the Rose Bowl, while TCU went to the Sugar Bowl.
Princeton closed its season with a 38β7 win at Yale, to finish 9β0β0.
Decemberβ»
December 7 UCLA beat Idaho 13β6. TCU won at Santa Clara, 10β6.
December 14 In San Francisco, UCLA closed its season with a 13β7 win over St. Mary's, while in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh beat USC 12β7.
Conference standingsβ»
For this article, major conferences defined as those including multiple state flagship public universities.
Major conference standingsβ»
Independentsβ»
Minor conferencesβ»
Minor conference standingsβ»
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Rankingsβ»
A poll of 142 newspaper writers, taken at year's endβby United Press International (known as United Press Associations at the time)βconcluded that Minnesota was the best in the nation. Alan J. Gould, creator of the AP writer's poll that would begin in the following year, named Minnesota, Princeton, and SMU co-champions.
Years later, other selectors recognized as βmajorβ by the NCAA, the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation title, and National Championship Foundation, retroactively selected Minnesota as national champion. Modern selectors, the Sagarin Ratings and Berryman Quality Point Rating System (Berryman QPRS), retroactively deemed SMU as national champion.
Bowl gamesβ»
Rankings from the Dickinson System
The Rose Bowl matched unbeaten Southwest Conference champion SMU (12β0) against Pacific Coast Conference co-champion Stanford (7β1) before a crowd of 86,000. Stanford has lost the two previous Rose Bowls, falling to Columbia in the 1934 Rose Bowl and 1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team the 1935 game. Determined not three-peat, the Stanford scored an early touchdown and held off the Mustangs to win 7β0.
In New Orleans, the second annual Sugar Bowl pitted TCU (11β1) against Southeastern Conference champion LSU (9β1) before a crowd of 38,000. TCU's Sammy Baugh was forced out of the end zone on a pass attempt, and the safety gave LSU a 2β0 lead. Two minutes later, Baugh drove the Frogs to the 17-yard line, setting up Taldon Malton's field goal. The final score was TCU 3, LSU 2
In Miami, the second annual Orange Bowl matched Ole Miss (9β2) against unheralded Catholic University (8β1). A crowd of 10,000 watched Catholic take an early lead and pull off a 20β19 upset. The Sun Bowl matched two colleges for the first time, as New Mexico A&M and HardinβSimmons battled to a 14β14 tie.
Awards and honorsβ»
All-Americansβ»
Statistical leadersβ»
Heisman Trophyβ»
1935 was the first year that the Heisman Trophy was ever awarded, although it was named differently in the first year. In 1935, it was presented by the Downtown Athletic Club (DAC) in Manhattan, New York, a privately owned recreation facility near the site of the former World Trade Center. It was first known simply as the "DAC Trophy" for this inaugural year. The first winner, Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago, was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles but declined to sign for them. He never played professional football for any team. In 1936, John Heisman died and the trophy was renamed in his honor. Larry Kelley, the second winner of the award was the first man to win it officially named as the "Heisman Trophy."
Voting
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2011. p. 73.
- ^ Williamson, Paul B. (January 16, 1936). "Frogs Rated First In Final Grid Standings; S.M.U. Mustangs Placed Second By Williamson". Fort Worth StarβTelegram. Fort Worth, Texas. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
No Undisputable National Champions Picked; Sugar Bowl Game One of Best
- ^ Mark Purcell http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv05/CFHSNv05n3c.pdf Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Purdue Hands Fordham Humiliating Defeat at Polo Grounds", Syracuse Herald, Oct. 13, 1935, pB-2
- ^ Grantland Rice, "'Fighting Irish' Rally To Win 18β13 Victory", from Syracuse Herald, Nov. 3, 1935, pII-1
- ^ "This Day in Buckeye History"
- ^ "Lowly Wildcats Crush Mighty Notre Dame", Fresno Bee, Nov. 10, 1935, pIII-1.
- ^ "Madison Square Garden Missed This Fistic Event", Syracuse Herald, November 29, 1935, p34
- ^ "1935 Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
- ^ "Urbana Daily Courier 12 December 1935 β Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections". idnc.library.illinois.edu. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
- ^ Nissenson, Herschel (2001). Tales from college football's sidelines. Internet Archive. β» : Sports Pub. L.L.C. ISBN 978-1-58261-269-0.
- ^ "Manton's Kick Gives T.C.U. 3 To 2 Win", Oakland Tribune, January 2, 1936, pB-1
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"Heisman Trophy". heisman.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2008. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
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