The 1933 Santa Clara Broncos football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...

as an independent during the

1933 college football season The 1933 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines repeat as winners of the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson System. The unofficial east–west championship game, the Rose Bowl, was between Stanford ...

. In their fifth season under head coach Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith, the Broncos compiled a 6–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 101 to 40. Key players included quarterback Joe Morey, halfbacks Bill Denser, Vin O'Connell, and Chuck Fuller, and fullback "Diamond Joe" Paglia.

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Santa Clara Broncos football The Santa Clara Broncos football program was the intercollegiate American football team for Santa Clara University located in Santa Clara, California. Santa Clara played its first football game against St. Mary's College in San Francisco in 18 ...