The 1934 Idaho Vandals football team represented the
University of Idaho in the
1934 college football season
The 1934 college football season was the 66th season of college football in the United States. Two New Year's Day bowl games were initiated to rival the Rose Bowl Game. On February 15, Warren V. Miller and Joseph M. Cousins organized the New Orl ...
. The
Vandals were led by sixth-year head coach
Leo Calland, and were members of the
Pacific Coast Conference
The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pac-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, with eight of the ten PCC members (including a ...
. Home games were played on campus in
Moscow at
MacLean Field, with none in
Boise this year.
Idaho compiled a overall record and lost all but one of its five games in the PCC.
In the
Battle of the Palouse with neighbor
Washington State, the Vandals suffered a seventh straight loss, falling in Pullman on Idaho's most recent win in the series was nine years earlier in
1925
Events January
* January 1
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and the next was twenty years away in
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
.
Calland resigned after the season in mid-December; he compiled a record in six seasons on the
Palouse, but his overmatched Vandals were just in conference play, defeating only He returned to
southern
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California and coached at
San Diego State College; his successor at Idaho was
Ted Bank
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Bank was a starting quarterback for Fielding Yost's 1920 and 1921 Wolverine football teams. He graduated from the university in 192 ...
, the backs coach at
Tulane of
New Orleans, in
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
and
Sugar Bowl
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Schedule
All-conference
No Vandals were named to the All-Coast team; honorable mention were end Norman Iverson and tackle Bob McCue.
References
External links
''Gem of the Mountains:'' 1935 University of Idaho yearbook– 1934 football season
Go Mighty Vandals– 1934 football season
Official game program: Idaho at Washington State– November 10, 1934
– student newspaper – 1934 editions
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