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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
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. 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
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and the next was twenty years away in
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. 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
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California and coached at San Diego State College; his successor at Idaho was
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and
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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.


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''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 {{Idaho Vandals football navbox Idaho Idaho Vandals football seasons Idaho Vandals football