The 1931 Stanford football team represented

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in the

1931 college football season The 1931 college football season saw the USC Trojans win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson System, as well as the No. 1 position from each of the other three contemporary major selectors (Boand, Dunkel, and ...

. Their head coach was

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in his eighth season. The team played its home games at

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. This was the first year the team was officially known as the "Indians." The team had been referred to by that nickname for some time, but the mascot was officially adopted by a unanimous vote by the Executive Committee for the Associated Students at the end of the previous football season. Stanford's end-of-season game against Dartmouth at

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remains the only time the team played in that stadium; a planned game at Harvard in 1950 was canceled.

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