1923 California Golden Bears football team

1923 California Golden Bears football
National champion (Houlgate) PCC champion
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
1923 record	9–0–1 (5–0 PCC)
Head coach	Andy Smith (8th season)
Offensive scheme	Short-punt
Uniform

1923 PCC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
California $	5	–	0	–	0	9	–	0	–	1
Washington•	4	–	1	–	0	10	–	1	–	1
Idaho	2	–	2	–	1	5	–	2	–	1
Stanford	2	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
USC	2	–	2	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Washington State	1	–	3	–	1	2	–	4	–	1
Oregon Agricultural	1	–	3	–	1	4	–	5	–	2
Oregon	0	–	4	–	1	3	–	4	–	1

$ – Conference champion Selected as Rose Bowl representative

The 1923 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1923 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Andy Smith, the team compiled a 9–0–1 record (5–0 against PCC opponents), shut out nine of ten opponents, won the PCC championship, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 182 to 7.^[1]^[2] The team was selected retroactively as the 1923 national champion by the Houlgate System, which was used to determine annual championships from 1929 to 1958.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 22	California Alumni*	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	W 3–0
September 29	Saint Mary's (CA)*	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	W 49–0
October 6	Santa Clara*	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	W 48–0
October 13	Olympic A. C.*	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	W 16–0
October 20	Oregon Agricultural*	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	W 26–0
October 27	vs. Washington State	Multnomah Field • Portland, OR	W 9–0
November 3	Nevada	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	T 0–0
November 10	at USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 13–7	72,000
November 17	Washington	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	W 9–0	28,000
November 24	Stanford	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA (Big Game)	W 9–0
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

^[4]

References

↑ "1923 California Golden Bears Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
↑ "California 2015 Football Information Guide" (PDF). CalBears.com. Cal Golden Bears Athletics. p. 162. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
↑ "1923 California Golden Bears Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2015-09-25.

1923 California Golden Bears football—national champions
Dana Carey Edwin C. Horrell Donald Nichols Head coach Andy Smith

California Golden Bears football
Venues	California Field (1904–1922) California Memorial Stadium (1923–2010, 2012–present) AT&T Park (2011)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Stanford: Big Game (Stanford Axe) UCLA
Culture & lore	Oski "Fight for California" Marching band Tightwad Hill The Play
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906–1914 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
National championship seasons in bold

College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)
1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1872: Princeton / Yale 1873: Princeton 1874: Harvard / Princeton / Yale 1875: Columbia / Harvard / Princeton 1876: Yale 1877: Princeton / Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton
1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Princeton / Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Princeton / Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Princeton / Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton
1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton / Yale 1894: Penn / Princeton / Yale 1895: Penn / Yale 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn / Yale 1898: Harvard / Princeton 1899: Harvard / Princeton
1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Harvard / Michigan / Yale 1902: Michigan / Yale 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Minnesota / Penn 1905: Chicago / Yale 1906: Princeton / Yale 1907: Yale 1908: Harvard / LSU / Penn 1909: Yale
1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Auburn / Chicago / Harvard 1914: Army / Illinois / Texas 1915: Cornell / Minnesota / Oklahoma / Pittsburgh 1916: Army / Georgia Tech / Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Centre / Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M
1920s	1920: California / Georgia / Harvard / Notre Dame / Princeton 1921: California / Cornell / Iowa / Lafayette / Washington & Jefferson / Vanderbilt 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton / Vanderbilt 1923: Cal / Cornell / Illinois / Michigan / Yale 1924: Notre Dame / Penn 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth / Michigan 1926: Alabama / Lafayette / Michigan / Navy / Stanford 1927: Georgia / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M / Yale 1928: Detroit / Georgia Tech / USC 1929: Notre Dame / Pittsburgh / USC
1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: Pittsburgh / Purdue / USC 1932: Colgate / Michigan / USC 1933: Michigan / Ohio State / Princeton / USC 1934: Alabama / Minnesota 1935: LSU / Minnesota / Princeton / SMU / TCU

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)
National championships in bold

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