November
November 7 USC (4-1-0) and Stanford (5-0-1) met at Los Angeles, and USC won 19-0. In Montgomery, Alabama, Tulane shut out Auburn 27-0. Tennessee beat visiting Carson-Newman, 31-0. Northwestern beat Minnesota, 32-14. Purdue beat Centenary College 49-6. Before a crowd of 65,000 at Yankee Stadium, Georgia stayed unbeaten as it defeated New York University 7-6, with the aid of a 97 yard kickoff return by Buster Mott in the third quarter. Harvard beat Dartmouth 7-6 and Yale beat St. John's College of Maryland, 52-0. Pittsburgh beat Carnegie Tech 14-6. Notre Dame beat Pennsylvania 49-0. St. Mary's suffered its first defeat, to the visiting Olympic Club, 10-0
November 11 In an Armistice Day game at Los Angeles, UCLA handed St. Mary's its second straight loss, 12-0
November 14 Tulane (7-0-0) and Georgia (6-0-0) faced off in Athens before a crowd of 36,000 for the rights to best in the South. The Green Wave rolled over Georgia's Bulldogs 20-7. Tennessee defeated Vanderbilt 21-7. USC beat visiting Montana 69-0. Harvard defeated Holy Cross 7-0. Purdue defeated Iowa 22-0 and Northwestern edged Indiana 7-6. Pittsburgh beat visiting Army 26-0. In Baltimore, Notre Dame beat Navy 20-0
November 21 Notre Dame (6-0-1) had not lost a football game in almost three years, its last defeat having been to the USC Trojans on 27-14 on December 1, 1928. A crowd of 52,000 turned out as (5-1-0) USC came to the Notre Dame campus in South Bend for the first time ever. The Trojans trailed 14-0 going into the fourth quarter, and was trailing 14-13 in the final minutes after Johnny Baker's extra point attempt had been blocked. In the final minute, Baker kicked a 34 yard field goal for a 16-14 win, Notre Dame's first loss in 27 starts. Tulane beat Sewanee 40-0. Northwestern won at Iowa 9-0, and Purdue won at Indiana, 19-0. In Columbus, Ga., Georgia beat Auburn 12-6. Yale (3-1-2) hosted Harvard (7-0-0) and won 3-0
November 26 On Thanksgiving Day, Pitt and Nebraska, both 7-1-0, met in Pittsburgh, with the home team winning 40-0. Tennessee and Kentucky played to a 6-6 tie in Lexington. St. Mary's defeated Oregon 16-0.
November 28 In Yankee Stadium, a crowd of 80,000 turned out in spite of a snowstorm, and watched as Notre Dame was beaten by Army, 12-0, for its second consecutive defeat after 26 games without a loss. Meanwhile, 40,000 watched in Chicago as Northwestern (7-0-1) and Purdue (8-1-0) met in a "post-season charity game" on a frozen field in Chicago, with the Boilermakers handing the Wildcats their first defeat, 7-0.
Yale beat Princeton 51-14. Tulane defeated LSU 34-7 and Georgia defeated Georgia Tech 35-6
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