The 1929 Cal Aggies football team represented the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture

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was known as Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture from 1922 to 1959. in the

1929 college football season The 1929 college football season saw a number of unbeaten and untied teams. Purdue, Tulane, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh all finished the regular season with wins over all their opponents. Notre Dame was recognized as national champion by two of thre ...

. The team was known as either the Cal Aggies or California Aggies, and competed in the

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(FWC).The

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(NCAC) was known as the Far Western Conference (FWC) from its founding in 1925 to 1982. The Aggies were led by second-year head coach Irv "Crip" Toomey. They played home games in

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. The Aggies finished as champion of the FWC, with a record of six wins and two losses (6–2, 3–1 FWC). The Aggies outscored their opponents 116–25 for the 1929 season, with all of their victories coming via shutout. Kermit Schmidt, who played for the Cal Aggies from 1926 to 1929, later played in the

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(NFL) for the

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and

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. Schmidt was the first Cal Aggie to play in the NFL. Following Schmidt, no other Aggie played in the NFL until Tom Williams in 1970.

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