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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 under the Dickinson system. Pitt and USC met in the Rose Bowl, at that time the only postseason college football game and an unofficial title game between the best teams of east and west, but Pitt's claims for a national title were demolished by the Trojans, 47–14. A major change in the rules for 1929 was that a fumbled ball was dead as soon as it struck the ground. Previously, a defending player could run with a recovered fumble, as in the case of Roy Riegels in the 1929 Rose Bowl.

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  • 1929 college football season
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  • 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 under the Dickinson system. Pitt and USC met in the Rose Bowl, at that time the only postseason college football game and an unofficial title game between the best teams of east and west, but Pitt's claims for a national title were demolished by the Trojans, 47–14. A major change in the rules for 1929 was that a fumbled ball was dead as soon as it struck the ground. Previously, a defending player could run with a recovered fumble, as in the case of Roy Riegels in the 1929 Rose Bowl.
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  • Not awarded until 1935
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  • 1930-01-01(xsd:date)
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  • 1929(xsd:integer)
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  • 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 under the Dickinson system. Pitt and USC met in the Rose Bowl, at that time the only postseason college football game and an unofficial title game between the best teams of east and west, but Pitt's claims for a national title were demolished by the Trojans, 47–14. A major change in the rules for 1929 was that a fumbled ball was dead as soon as it struck the ground. Previously, a defending player could run with a recovered fumble, as in the case of Roy Riegels in the 1929 Rose Bowl. Major conferences that existed in 1929 were the Western Conference (today's Big Ten), the Pacific Coast Conference (now the Pacific-12), the Big Six (forerunner of the Big 12), the Southwest Conference, and the Southern Conference (whose members later formed the SEC and the ACC). At season's end, the Rissler Cup was awarded to the team that finished first in the "Dickinson ratings", which considered strength of schedule, in that a win, loss or tie against a "strong" opponent was worth more than one against a lesser team, and the results were averaged.
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