1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season
Also departed was 1932 team captain Ivy Williamson, who went on to a long career as a coach and athletic director at the University of Wisconsin. However, most of the starters from the unbeaten 1932 team returned for the 1933 season. Key players returning from the 1932 team included halfbacks Herman Everhardus and Stanley Fay, center Chuck Bernard, tackle Whitey Wistert, ends Ted Petoskey and Willis Ward, and fullback John Regeczi.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season
Bill Renner, who had been a reserve in 1931 but did not play football in 1932, was expected to take over for Newman at quarterback. In early September 1933, Harry Kipke said that Renner was "just as good a passer as Newman – if he can do the other things." Kipke also announced plans to implement a new "rump wheel" formation in which the guards would back away from the line simultaneous with the snap to block for the backs. As Michigan's signal-caller for the 1933 season, Renner was responsible for mastering over 100 plays in the team's playbook – more than triple the 25 to 30 plays used by most teams.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season
The 1933 pre-season also saw the return of the Little Brown Jug, which had been awarded to the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game for more than 20 years. The jug had disappeared in 1931. In late August 1933, Al Thomas, the brother of the groundskeeper at Ferry Field, found it in bushes along East University Avenue in Ann Arbor.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season
Michigan's pre-season training camp began in mid-September. In a letter to a friend, backup center Gerald Ford, who later became President of the United States, wrote about Coach Kipke's pre-season training camp: "You should thank your lucky stars you're not a would be athlete. Between the weather, the coaches and my own wretched condition, the afternoons are long the hours for sleep way too short."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Michigan State
On October 7, 1933, Michigan opened its season against Michigan State College. Michigan won the game, 20–6, on "a misty, soggy field, with occasional misty rain" at Michigan Stadium. Michigan scored all of its points in the first quarter. Early in the game, Whitey Wistert downed the ball at the Spartans' two-yard line after a long punt by John Regeczi. The Spartans punted the ball back to Michigan, and Michigan got the ball at Michigan State's 18-yard line. Herman Everhardus ran for a touchdown, and Ted Petoskey's extra point kick was unsuccessful. Eight minutes into the game, Michigan scored again.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Michigan State
A 37-yard punt return by Everhardus gave Michigan the ball at the Spartans' 19-yard line. On second down, Jack Heston ran for the touchdown, and Everhardus kicked the extra point. Later in the quarter, John Kowalik recovered a Michigan State fumble at the Spartans' 23-yard line. Everhardus ran for his second touchdown of the quarter and followed with his second extra point kick. Neither team scored in the second or third quarters. Early in the final period, with Michigan leading 20–0, Michigan State completed an 86-yard drive with a touchdown on a short pass from Muth to Kurt Warmbein. The touchdown was the first scored by Michigan State against Michigan in 15 years.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Michigan State
Charlie Bachman, in his first game as Michigan State's head coach, used a passing game to attempt a comeback. The Spartans completed five of 18 passes for 74 yards. The Wolverines completed one of four passes. After the game, Bachman told reporters: "I am pleased with the outcome of the game, despite the loss, because we got rid of that inferiority complex with Michigan. My two sophomore backs . . . played as if they never heard of Michigan. To them, Michigan was just another football team."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Michigan State
Michigan's starting lineup against Michigan State was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Borgmann (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Heston (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Savage, Beard, Viergever, Westover, Oliver, Renner, Hildebrand, Singer, Jacobson, Tessmer, Chapman, and Fuog.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Cornell
On October 14, 1933, Michigan played Cornell, renewing one of its oldest rivalries. The programs had played 15 games, with Cornell winning the first seven games from 1889 to 1894. The teams had not played since 1917. Cornell's head coach "Gloomy Gil" Dobie led the Big Red to three consecutive undefeated seasons and two national championships in the 1920s. Before the game, Dobie said that his small squad of 27 players "stood absolutely no chance of winning" against Michigan, and Kipke replied that "Michigan hasn't a chance to win from Cornell." The Associated Press referred to the coaches' comments as a battle of the "gloom men."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Cornell
Michigan extended its unbeaten streak to 16 games by defeating Cornell, 40–0, the Wolverines' largest point total and largest margin of victory in seven years. The Wolverines gained 421 yards of total offense, including 319 rushing yards, 96 passing yards, and six yards on laterals. Left halfback Herman Everhardus led the offense with 21 points on three touchdowns and three extra points. On defense, Michigan held Cornell to 55 yards of total offense. The Wolverines stopped Cornell's highly regarded running game by playing six men at the line of scrimmage throughout the game. Cornell did not complete a pass in the game, and four attempts were intercepted by Michigan.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Cornell
Michigan scored its first touchdown on a fake punt in the first quarter. Fullback John Regeczi dropped back in punt formation, but instead ran 75 yards around Cornell's right end for the score. Everhardus kicked the extra point. In the second quarter, Everhardus ran 52 yards for Michigan's second touchdown. The extra point attempt failed when Louis Westover fumbled the snap from center. Michigan drove to Cornell's three-yard line shortly before halftime, but the drive ended on a fumble by left end Ted Petoskey.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Cornell
On the kick-off to start the second half, Everhardus returned the ball 85 yards for a touchdown and kicked the extra point. A short time later, Cornell's left halfback Ferraro fumbled at the Cornell 19-yard line, and Michigan recovered. Everhardus scored from the three-yard line on a lateral pass from Stanley Fay. Everhardus again kicked the extra point. Michigan played its reserves through the balance of the game. A total of 31 players appeared in the game for Michigan.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Cornell
Late in the third quarter, Fay scored a touchdown on a lateral pass from Bill Renner, and Carl Savage kicked the extra point. In the fourth quarter, Michael Malashevich scored the final touchdown on a 52-yard pass play from Renner. Harvey Chapman's attempt at the extra point was unsuccessful. Michigan's backup quarterback Estel Tessmer broke his collar bone in the fourth quarter and was unable to play for the remainder of the season.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Cornell
Michigan's starting lineup against Cornell was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Savage (left guard), Bernard (center), Borgmann (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Heston (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback). Michigan substitutes appearing in the game were Chapman, Malashevich, Johnson, Hildebrant, Viergever, McGuire, Jacobson, Kowalik, Beard, Singer, Wells, Ponto, Ford, Fuog, Tessmer, Westover, Renner, Triplehorn, Dauksza, Oliver, and Remias.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
On October 21, 1933, Michigan played Ohio State in Ann Arbor. Michigan's last defeat before the 1933 season had been against Ohio State in 1931, and the 1933 Ohio State team was reputed to be "the most powerful Ohio team since the days of [Gaylord] Stinchcomb and [Chic] Harley." With both teams contending for the Big Ten Conference championship, it was the most anticipated meeting in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry since 1922.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
An Associated Press report noted: "Feverish excitement, unequaled since that week 11 years ago when Michigan was getting ready to dedicate Ohio State's new stadium, has taken hold of Maize and Blue followers." Another report noted: "The 'rah-rah' spirit is rampant once more in Ann Arbor to the extent that gang fights between Freshmen and Sophomores are being revived after a lapse of several years."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
In a departure from his practice of allowing the press to attend Michigan's workouts, Michigan coach Harry Kipke prepared for the game behind locked gates at Ferry Field. The Associated Press reported that "an air of deepest mystery" surrounded the Michigan camp, with expectations that Kipke intended to "shoot the works" against Ohio State. Michigan athletic director Fielding H. Yost predicted the matchup would be "some game" and added, "It won't be a parade of chocolate soldiers." A pep rally was set for Hill Auditorium the night before the game.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
The Michigan team spent the night at Barton Hills Country Club while the Ohio State team stayed overnight in Dearborn, Michigan. Though Michigan Stadium's official capacity was 75,000, the demand for tickets prompted Michigan's athletic department to build temporary seating around the edge of the bowl. Newspapers and the University of Michigan yearbook reported that the game ultimately drew a crowd of more than 93,000, including 11,000 Ohio State fans. Up to that time, it was "the largest crowd that ever saw a Maize and Blue team perform."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
Michigan defeated the Buckeyes in the game, 13–0. The Wolverines gained 231 yards of total offense, 192 on the ground and 39 in the air. They held the Buckeyes to 60 rushing yards, 46 passing yards, and three first downs. Ohio State completed two of ten passes, with five passes being intercepted by Michigan. Ted Petoskey was reported to be the outstanding player on defense: "Petoskey halted Ohio's rushes at his end, eluded his blockers, pulled down runners at the line of scrimmage and tossed them for losses, coming from behind to make smothering tackles."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
Bill Renner scored Michigan's first touchdown on a long drive in the second quarter that featured a 19-yard gain on a pass from Renner to John Regeczi and a run by Jack Heston (Willie Heston's son) on Fielding H. Yost's "old 83" play. Renner ran for the touchdown from the three-yard line. The extra point kick by Herman Everhardus was wide, and Michigan led, 6–0.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
In the third quarter, Willis Ward returned an interception 50 yards. The Associated Press wrote:


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
"Willis Ward, the one-man track team, gave his best exhibition of end play. His 50-yard dash with an intercepted forward pass was the longest and by far the fastest run of the game. Ward sprinted past the last Buckeye, who barely touched his foot and tripped him on the Ohio 25-yard line."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
Michigan was unable to capitalize on Ward's long return, as a field goal attempt by Everhardus went wide. In the fourth quarter, Michigan's second touchdown was set up by Chuck Bernard. Bernard intercepted a pass at midfield and returned it to the 23-yard line. Michigan drove to the two-yard line, and Everhardus scored on a two-yard off-tackle run. Carl Savage kicked the extra point to extend the lead to 13–0. In The News-Bee of Toledo, Frank Buckley described Michigan as the "Big Bad Wolf" of the Western Conference and wrote: "Michigan humbled, outclassed, outfought and completely outplayed Ohio State."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
Steve Farrell, who had served for many years as Michigan's track coach and the trainer of the football team, died four days before the Ohio State game. In a tribute to Farrell, the Michigan band formed the word "Steve" and "marched slowly down the field as taps were sounded."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Ohio State
Michigan's starting lineup against Ohio State was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Savage (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Heston (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback). Michigan substitutes appearing in the game were Renner, Westover, Oliver, Chapman, Viergever, Hildebrand, Borgmann, Beard, and Ford.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Chicago
Michigan played its first road game on October 28, 1933, against the Chicago Maroons. The game attracted many Michigan fans, drawn by the lure of the game as well as the 1933 World's Fair (called the Century of Progress) being held in Chicago. Even Michigan's backup center, Gerald Ford, expressed a desire to attend the fair while in Chicago. Days before the Chicago trip, the future U.S. President wrote to a friend:


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Chicago
"Leave for Chicago Friday and stay there until Sunday afternoon. Maybe I'll get a chance to see the 'fair,' but already some of the boys are planning a celebration party and I'm sure I'll have to partake so 'Sally Rand' [a famous fan dancer performing at the fair] will have to wait."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Chicago
After returning from Chicago, Ford wrote to the same friend: "Had a swell time in Chicago and didn't see Sally Rand either. Saw all of the fair in 25 minutes, at least all I wanted to see."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Chicago
Chicago's 1933 football team was led by a new head coach, Clark Shaughnessy, and by Jay Berwanger, who won the first Heisman Trophy two years later. Although the 1933 Maroons were reputed to be "the best Chicago team in years", Michigan won, 28–0, the largest margin of victory recorded by Michigan against a Chicago team. Stanley Fay and Herman Everhardus scored touchdowns in the first quarter, and Bill Renner and Louis Westover scored in the fourth quarter. Fay scored the first touchdown on the seventh play of the game.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Chicago
Westover's touchdown came on a 33-yard pass from Renner in the fourth quarter. Extra points were kicked by Everhardus (2), Ted Petoskey, and Harvey Chapman. On defense, Michigan allowed Chicago to cross the 50-yard line only twice, and one of those instances resulted from a Michigan fumble at its own 39-yard line. In the fourth quarter, Chicago halfback Zimmer ran the ball 32 yards to Michigan's 48-yard line, but the drive stalled there. Through the first four games of the season, Michigan had outscored its opponents, 101 to 6.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Chicago
Michigan's starting lineup against Chicago was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Savage (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Westover (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Fay (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Chapman, Malashevich, Viergever, Hildebrand, Stone, Jacobson, McGuire, Borgmann, Ponto, Beard, Singer, Ford, Fuog, Renner, Bolas, Triplehorn, Oliver, and Remias.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Illinois
Michigan played its second consecutive road game on November 4, 1933, against Illinois. Before the game, a member of the Michigan coaching staff expressed concern that Illinois head coach Robert Zuppke, with two weeks to prepare due to a bye week, would have a variety of tricks ready for Michigan.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Illinois
Michigan won by the margin of a missed extra point kick, 7–6. Illinois scored first on a drive fueled by the passing of Illinois quarterback Jack Beynon. Fullback Cook scored from the three-yard line, but Barton Cummings' kick for the extra point was blocked by Michigan's right end Willis Ward. In the second quarter, a poor punt by Beynon gave Michigan possession at the Illinois 28-yard line. After moving the ball to the 15-yard line, Bill Renner passed to Ted Petoskey at the seven-yard line.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Illinois
The ball was moved to the one-yard line after a penalty against Illinois, and Herman Everhardus ran around right end for a touchdown. Everhardus kicked the extra point to give the Wolverines a 7–6 lead. Neither team scored in the third quarter. With 15 seconds remaining in the game, John Regeczi punted from Michigan's end zone. Illinois quarterback Beynon made a fair catch at Michigan's 31-yard line. Illinois elected to attempt a field goal without interference, an option available to team receiving a punt under 1933 rules. The crowd stood as Barton Cummings lined up to attempt the kick. The kick was a foot wide of the upright, and Michigan's 7–6 lead held.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Illinois
After Michigan's domination of its first four opponents, the Wolverines had been "hailed afar as the 'perfect team.'" The performance of Illinois reportedly "rekindled hope in the hearts of Michigan's rivals." Illinois coach Zuppke was credited for his "magnificent" strategy in nearly upsetting the Wolverines. Michigan left guard, Carl Savage, suffered a ligament injury in the game, and his leg was placed in a cast. Savage's injury proved to involve a fractured bone in his foot, and he was unable to return to the Michigan lineup.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Illinois
Michigan's starting lineup against Illinois was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Savage (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Heston (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback).


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Iowa
On November 11, 1933, Michigan played Ossie Solem's Iowa Hawkeyes. Michigan won the game, 10–6. The game was played on a wet field with occasional snow flurries before a crowd of 26,000 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan's first points came on a field goal by Herman Everhardus from the 24-yard line. In the second quarter, Everhardus ran 47 yards to the Iowa 16-yard line. On fourth down, Bill Renner threw a touchdown pass to Stanley Fay. Everhardus kicked the extra point to give Michigan a 10–0 lead.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Iowa
In the third quarter, Iowa scored on a drive that featured a long pass from George Teyro to Dick Crayne and a touchdown pass from Teyro to Bernard Page. Ted Petoskey and Willis Ward blocked Russ Fisher's kick for the extra point. Michigan gained 216 yards on rushing and 27 yards on passes.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Iowa
The Associated Press opened its account of the game: "Herman Everhardus, the Flying Dutchman of Kalamazoo, unleashed a toe as true as a navy siege gun and Bill Renner displayed uncanny passing aim today as Michigan's powerful football team, playing in snow and ice, swept toward a fourth consecutive Big Ten championship . . ."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Iowa
Iowa was held to 39 yards rushing, but gained 113 yards on passes. After giving up 113 passing yards, some in the media questioned the strength of Michigan's pass defense. Michigan athletic director Fielding H. Yost dismissed the criticism. Yost showed his to reporters and explained that Iowa had completed five of 19 passes for 120 yards. He pointed out that nine passes were incomplete, and five others were intercepted, two by Ward and one each by Everhardus, Louis Westover and Tom Austin. Yost pointed out that Michigan had returned the five interceptions for 169 yards, giving Michigan a net gain of 49 yards on Iowa's 19 passes.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Iowa
Michigan's starting lineup against Iowa was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Hildebrand (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Heston (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Jacobson, Singer, Borgmann, Renner, Westover, Oliver and Ford.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
On November 18, 1933, Michigan played Bernie Bierman's Minnesota Golden Gophers. Like the Illini two weeks earlier, Minnesota had two weeks to prepare for the Wolverines following a bye week. The game ended in a scoreless tie. Each team attempted three passes, and neither team completed any. Two of Michigan's three pass attempts were intercepted by Minnesota. Bierman's Golden Gophers also held Michigan to 58 rushing yards. Michigan's best scoring opportunity was set up by a Statue of Liberty play in which Bill Renner dropped back to pass and cocked his arm to throw.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
Stanley Fay ran behind Renner and took the ball from Renner's extended hand. Fay ran around the end and eluded one tackler before being tackled by Vernal Levoir and Pug Lund at the Gophers' 30-yard line. Michigan was unable to penetrate further. Minnesota gained 132 yards on the ground, mostly by left halfback Pug Lund. In the third quarter, Lund ran for a 42-yard gain, and in the fourth quarter, he ran from kick formation, taking the ball to Michigan's 38-yard line. Two plays later, Minnesota fullback Vernal Levoir took the ball to Michigan's 16-yard line. When Michigan held Minnesota on three plays, Bill Bevan attempted a field goal from the 25-yard line. The kick went wide, and Minnesota's best scoring chance was lost.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
After the game, Coach Kipke told reporters: "We got off easy. . . . Minnesota has a great football team, and it is only fair to say we were lucky to hold them scoreless. . . . Our offense probably would have looked better on a dry field. Everhadus is our only hard driving back, while Minnesota has three, . . . Our other ball carriers depend on sidestepping to go places and they couldn't do much of that with the footing so slippery."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
Kipke also praised his defense for their play after Minnesota drove to the 15-yard line: "Fourth down and 12 yards to go didn't look bad at all. Renner certainly meant business when he threw Alfonse for that six-yard loss." The Wolverines played a defensive oriented game and relied heavily on Regeczi's punting. One sports columnist wrote: "No game I have seen this season more clearly brought out the inestimable value of consistent punting as did this bruise and batter struggle . . . No matter where Michigan was located when Johnny Regeczi went back to kick, the boot almost always was good enough to place Minnesota on the defensive."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
The tie snapped a 16-game winning streak for Harry Kipke's Wolverines dating back to November 14, 1931. Bierman's Golden Gophers went on to undefeated national championship seasons in 1934 and 1935.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
Michigan's starting lineup against Minnesota was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Hildebrand (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Renner (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Borgmann and Heston.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: at Northwestern
Michigan concluded its undefeated season with a 10–0 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats at Dyche Stadium in Evanston. Through most of the first half, the game was scoreless. With less than 30 seconds remaining in the half, Herman Everhardus kicked a field goal from the 25-yard line to give Michigan a 3–0 lead. Early in the third quarter, Bill Renner threw a 37-yard pass that hit Willis Ward over his right shoulder at full speed. Ward crossed the goal line, and Everhardus kicked the extra point.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: at Northwestern
Ted Petoskey added a field goal from the 35-yard line near the end of the third quarter. Michigan gained only 122 yards of total offense in the game, 37 on the ground and 85 in the air. The Wildcats were held to 110 yards of total offense, 83 on the ground and 27 in the air. Two interceptions helped to prevent Northwestern from scoring.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: at Northwestern
The game was played with strong winds impairing the kicking game. Wisconsin coach Clarence Spears wrote that Regeczi, with his strong kicking against Northwestern, was "50 percent of the team." Spears wrote: "Regeczi's kicking kept Michigan continually in front of the goal posts, where it could throw a long pass or try for a field goal."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: at Northwestern
Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Petoskey (left end), Wistert (left tackle), Hildebrand (left guard), Bernard (center), Kowalik (right guard), Austin (right tackle), Ward (right end), Fay (quarterback), Everhardus (left halfback), Heston (right halfback), and Regeczi (fullback).


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Team championships
For the second year in a row, Michigan received the Knute K. Rockne Trophy as the top-ranked team in the country under the Dickinson System, a rating model developed by Frank G. Dickinson, an economics professor at the University of Illinois. Having played what was considered an "extremely difficult schedule", Michigan was awarded 28.52 points, well ahead of the runners up: Nebraska (24.61), Minnesota (23.87), Pittsburgh (23.01), and Ohio State (23.01). In addition to winning the Rockne Trophy, the 1933 Michigan team has been recognized as national champions by the Billingsley Report, the National Championship Foundation, the College Football Researchers Association, the Boand System, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, Parke H. Davis, the Poling System and the Sagarin Ratings.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Team championships
The 1933 season was also the fourth straight year in which Michigan had won at least a share of the Big Ten Conference football championship. The last school to accomplish that feat was Michigan from 1901 to 1904 – Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Team championships
In mid-December 1933, rumors circulated that Kipke had been offered the job as the new head football coach at Yale. Kipke denied having been officially offered the job, but said he would consider it if offered. Three days later, Kipke announced that he would remain at Michigan and had been given "a slight increase in salary" and would be seeking salary increases for his assistant coaches as well. With his status settled, Kipke traveled to California where he helped Columbia prepare for its game against Stanford in the 1934 Rose Bowl.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Individual honors
Several Michigan players received significant honors for their role in leading the 1933 team to a national championship. Left halfback Herman Everhardus was the Big Ten scoring leader in 1933 with 64 points on eight touchdowns, 10 extra points, and two field goals. He was also named the Most Valuable Player on Michigan's 1933 team. At the end of the season, Coach Kipke said, "Everhardus stepped out and became a really great ballplayer this fall."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Individual honors
Center Chuck Bernard and tackle Francis Wistert were consensus first-team picks for the 1933 College Football All-America Team. End Ted Petoskey was selected as a first-team All-American by the International News Service (the Hearst newspapers' wire service), the Central Press Association, and Midweek Pictorial, and received second-team honors from the Associated Press, United Press, and Collier's Weekly (by Grantland Rice). Everhardus received second-team All-American honors from the International News Service and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (selected by NEA's All-America Committee of coaches), and third-team honors from Collier's Weekly. Bernard, Wistert, Petoskey, and Everhardus were also first-team members of the All-Big Ten Conference teams selected by the United Press and Associated Press.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Individual honors
Based on his contributions to both the track and football teams, right end Willis Ward finished second in balloting for the Associated Press Big Ten Athlete of the Year award. The voting was by Big Ten coaches with 55 votes being cast. Duane Purvis of Purdue won the award with 17 votes; Ward received 15 votes. (Ted Petoskey, Wards's counterpart at the left end of the Michigan line, finished in third place with five votes.) Ward was the first African-American to play football at Michigan in more than 40 years.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Individual honors
At the Butler Relays in April 1933, he ran the 60-yard dash in 6.2 seconds, tying the world record. He was the starting right end in every game for the 1933 football team. In late November, Coach Kipke noted "Ward and Petoskey were near perfection" in their play at the end positions. Time magazine wrote: "Michigan came perilously close to slipping from the top of the Big Ten, where it has been for three years. That it did not slip was largely due to a crack halfback named Herman Everhardus and to Willis Ward, a rangy Negro end. It was Ward who, after hard-fighting Illinois had marched to a touchdown in the first period, shot through and blocked the place kick which would have given Illinois a seventh point."


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Individual honors
In early December 1933, the team elected Tom Austin as the captain of the 1934 team. Austin was raised in Columbus, Ohio. He was the fifth Ohio native and the first lineman to be selected as Michigan's team captain in nine years.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Legalized beer
In a letter dated September 17, 1933, Gerald Ford wrote: "Herm Everhardus and myself just had a couple bottles of beer a piece, and did they ever taste good after drinking milk (and that's all) at the training table. After abstaining for a couple of days, it was really very refreshing." Only months earlier, the consumption of beer would have been illegal. An amendment to the Volstead Act allowing the sale of beer went into effect in April 1933. The availability of beer had a noticeable impact in Ann Arbor on football Saturdays.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Legalized beer
On October 8, 1933, the day after the Michigan-Michigan State football game, Ford noted that his fraternity was planning a big party with a barrel of beer. He added, "You should have seen the campus this week-end, more drunks than ever and they all claim that the year is just beginning. I'm afraid to imagine what it will be by the Ohio State game." Ford's concern proved prescient.


1933 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Legalized beer
After the Ohio State game, the university attracted unwanted national publicity when its board in control of athletics mailed notices to ticket holders warning that they would be ejected if complaints were received about their drinking. The notices stated that the board was not concerned with "the personal habits and tastes" of ticket-holders, but felt a deep concern "when indulgence in such habits and tastes results in conduct disgusting or offensive to other patrons."


1933 Milan–San Remo
The 1933 Milan–San Remo was the 26th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 26 March 1933. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Learco Guerra.


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1933 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Bernie Bierman, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4–0–4 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 64 to 32.


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Halfback Pug Lund was selected for the team's Most Valuable Player award. Tackle Marshall Wells was named All-Big Ten first team. Fullback John Baumgartner was named Academic All-Big Ten.


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Total attendance for the season was 164,301, which averaged to 27,384. The season high for attendance at Memorial Stadium was 45,000 against Iowa.


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On November 18, 1933, Minnesota played Michigan. Minnesota had two weeks to prepare for the Wolverines following a bye week. The game ended in a scoreless tie. Each team attempted three passes, and neither team completed any. Two of Michigan's three pass attempts were intercepted by Minnesota. Bierman's Golden Gophers also held Michigan to 58 rushing yards. Michigan's best scoring opportunity was set up by a Statue of Liberty play in which Bill Renner dropped back to pass and cocked his arm to throw. Stanley Fay ran behind Renner and took the ball from Renner's extended hand.


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Fay ran around the end and eluded one tackler before being tackled by Vernal Levoir and Pug Lund at the Gophers' 30-yard line. Michigan was unable to penetrate further. Minnesota gained 132 yards on the ground, mostly by left halfback Pug Lund. In the third quarter, Lund ran for a 42-yard gain, and in the fourth quarter, he ran from kick formation, taking the ball to Michigan's 38-yard line. Two plays later, Minnesota fullback Vernal Levoir took the ball to Michigan's 16-yard line. When Michigan held Minnesota on three plays, Bill Bevan attempted a field goal from the 25-yard line. The kick went wide, and Minnesota's best scoring chance was lost.


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
After the game, Michigan coach Harry Kipke told reporters: "We got off easy. . . . Minnesota has a great football team, and it is only fair to say we were lucky to hold them scoreless. . . . Our offense probably would have looked better on a dry field. Everhadus is our only hard driving back, while Minnesota has three, . . . Our other ball carriers depend on sidestepping to go places and they couldn't do much of that with the footing so slippery."


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
One sports columnist wrote: "No game I have seen this season more clearly brought out the inestimable value of consistent punting as did this bruise and batter struggle . . . No matter where Michigan was located when Johnny Regeczi went back to kick, the boot almost always was good enough to place Minnesota on the defensive."


1933 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
The tie snapped a 16-game winning streak for Kipke's Wolverines dating back to November 14, 1931. Bierman's Golden Gophers went on to undefeated national championship seasons in 1934 and 1935.


1933 Mississippi State Maroons football team
The 1933 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1933 college football season.


1933 Mississippi State Teachers Yellow Jackets football team
The 1933 Mississippi State Teachers Yellow Jackets football team was an American football team that represented the Mississippi State Teachers College (now known as the University of Southern Mississippi) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1933 college football season. In their third year under head coach Pooley Hubert, the team compiled a 3–5–2 record.


1933 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1933 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1933 college football season. The team compiled a 1–8 record (0–5 against Big 6 opponents), finished in sixth place in the Big 6, and was outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 193 to 58. Frank Carideo was the head coach for the second of three seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.


1933 Missouri Tigers football team
The team's leading scorer was Sidney Johnson with 18 points.


1933 Mitropa Cup
The 1933 season of the Mitropa Cup football club tournament was won by Austria Wien who defeated AS Ambrosiana Inter 4-3 on aggregate in the final. It was the third time that a team from Vienna won the tournament, but the first of two wins for FK Austria Wien. The two legs were played on 3 September in San Siro stadium and 8 September in Prater Stadium.


1933 Mitropa Cup
The holders, AGC Bologna, had failed to qualify as one of the two Italian clubs. It was the last time that Ferencvárosi FC failed to qualify as one of the Hungarian clubs for the pre-war competition. This was the seventh edition of the tournament.


1933 Mitropa Cup
The accolade of top scorer was shared by four players who each scored five goals, Raimundo Orsi of semi-finalists Juventus, František Kloz of the other semi-finalists Sparta Prague, Giuseppe Meazza who scored one goal in each leg of the final for AS Ambrosiana Inter, and Matthias Sindelar who scored all three of FK Austria Wien's goals in the second leg of the final, the third, which was the winner, in the 88th minute.


1933 Monaco Grand Prix
The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 23 April 1933.


1933 Monaco Grand Prix
This was the first Grand Prix where grid positions were decided by practice time rather than the established method of balloting. Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari exchanged the lead many times during the race and the race was settled in Varzi's favour on the final lap when Nuvolari's car caught fire due to over-revving. Nuvolari was then disqualified due to outside assistance while attempting to push his car to the finish.


1933 Monegasque general election
General elections were held in Monaco on 16 July 1933 to elect the 12 members of the National Council. The national councilmen were elected by a 30-member Electoral College.


1933 Monegasque general election, Electoral College
The 30-member Electoral College consisted of nine members elected by the Communal Council and 21 members elected by voters. The Electoral College also includes three substitute members elected by the Communal Council and six substitute members elected by voters.


1933 Monegasque general election, Electoral College, Members elected by Communal Council
The Communal Council held an election for nine members and three substitute members of the Electoral Council on 24 June 1933.


1933 Monegasque general election, Electoral College, Members elected by voters
An election of the remaining 21 Electoral College members and six substitute members was held on 25 June 1933.


1933 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 1933 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1933 college football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). The Grizzlies were led by third-year head coach Bunny Oakes, played their home games at Dornblaser Field and finished the season with a record of three wins and four losses (3–4, 0–4 PCC).


1933 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 1933 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State College (later renamed Montana State University) in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1933 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Schubert R. Dyche, the team compiled a 2–5 record (1–3 against RMC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 171 to 38.


1933 Morgan Bears football team
The 1933 Morgan Bears football team was an American football team that represented Morgan College in the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1933 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Edward P. Hurt, the Bears compiled a 9–0 record, won the CIAA championship, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 319 to 6. The Bears were recognized as the 1933 black college national champion.


1933 Morgan Bears football team
Morgan players receiving first-team All-CIAA honors included Howard K. Wilson at quarterback, Troupe at fullback, Tom Conrad at left halfback, Crawford at right end, Williams at left tackle, and Hill at center.


1933 Murray State Thoroughbreds football team
The 1933 Murray State Thoroughbreds football team represented Murray State University in the 1933 college football season. The team was led by  coach Roy Stewart and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship.


1933 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1933 NC State Wolfpack football team was an American football team that represented North Carolina State University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1933 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach John "Clipper" Smith, the team compiled a 1–5–3 record (0–4 against SoCon opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 62 to 23.


1933 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The consensus 1933 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of three major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Helms Athletic Foundation, Converse and College Humor Magazine.


1933 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1933 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at Kiputh Pool at Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut as part of the 10th annual NCAA swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1933 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Only individual championships were officially contested during the first thirteen-NCAA sponsored swimming and diving championships. Unofficial team standings were kept but a team title was not officially awarded until 1937.


1933 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Northwestern are acknowledged as this year's unofficial team champions, the fourth such title for the Wildcats.


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships
The 1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the twelfth NCAA track and field championship. The meet was held at Chicago, Illinois in June 1933.


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Team championship
1. LSU - 58 points2. Southern California - 54 points3. Indiana - 27 points4. Stanford - 26-3/7 points5. Michigan - 24-3/5 points6. Illinois State - 22 points6. Kansas - 22 points8. Marquette - 20-6/7 points9. Oregon - 20 points10. Nebraska - 16 points


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
100-yard dash  1. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette - 9.4 seconds2. Paul Starr, Oregon3. Jimmy Johnson, Illinois State Normal4. Leslie Bell, USC5. Charlie Parsons, USC6. Hudson Hellmich, Illinois


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
120-yard high hurdles 1. Gus Meier, Stanford - 14.2 seconds2. Al Moreau, LSU3. Hawley Egleston, Michigan4. Ned Bacon, Denison5. Charles Caspar, TCU6. Dan Bracken, Washington


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
220-yard dash 1. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette - 20.4 seconds2. Jimmy Johnson, Illinois State Normal3. Paul Starr, Oregon4. Charlie Parsons, USC5. Ivan Fuqua, Indiana6. Swisher, Kansas State Teachers


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
220-yard low hurdles 1. Glenn Hardin, LSU - 22.9 seconds2. Heye Lambertus, Nebraska3. Norm Paul, USC4. Gus Meier, Stanford5. Ned Bacon, Denison6. Al Moreau, LSU


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
440-yard dash 1. Glenn Hardin, LSU - 47.1 seconds2. Ivan Fuqua, Indiana3. Ed Ablowich, USC4. Walter Dean, Iowa5. Bart Ward, Oklahoma6. Harry Thompkins, USC


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
880-yard run 1. Charles Hornbostel, Indiana - 1:50.9 2. Glenn Cunningham, Kansas3. John Simmons, Abilene Christian4. Ferris Webster, USC5. Ed Turner, Michigan6. Earl Labertew, Iowa State


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
One-mile run 1. Glenn Cunningham, Kansas - 4:09.82. Lyle Hutton, Illinois State Normal3. Ray Sears, Butler4. Bill Howell, Michigan5. Dean Woolsey, Illinois6. Charles Hornbostel, Indiana


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
Two-mile run  1. Mike Pilbrow, Grinnell - 9:22.82. Clifford Watson, Indiana3. Forrest Harvey, Colorado Aggies4. Joe McCluskey, Fordham5. Jim Freestad, North Dakota State Teachers6. James Smith, Kansas State Teachers


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Broad jump 1. John Brooks, Chicago - 24 feet, 4-3/4 inches2. Donald Gray, Nebraska3. Armin Dreusicke, Elmhurst4. Kepner, Wichita5. Louis Adams, Rice Institute6. Bart Ward, Oklahoma


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
High jump 1. Duncan McNaughton, USC - 6 feet, 4 inches2. Vince Murphy, Notre Dame - 6 feet, 4 inches3. Willis Ward, Michigan - 6 feet, 3 inches3. Spencer, Geneva - 6 feet, 3 inches3. Worth Watkins, Abilene Christian - 6 feet, 3 inches3. Lloyd Richey, Alabama Poly - 6 feet, 3 inches3. Jameson, Colorado - 6 feet, 3 inches


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Pole vault 1. Bill Graber, USC - 14 feet, 0 inches1. Matthew Gordy, LSU - 14 feet, 0 inches3. Ernest Lennington, Illinois3. John Wonsowitz, Ohio St.5. Don Zimmerman, Tulane5. Lowry, Michigan Normal5. Miller, Stanford5. Roark, Marquette5. Dick Schram, Marquette5. Ralph Lovshin, Wisconsin5. Monte Holcomb, Michigan St.


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Discus throw 1. Henri Laborde, Stanford - 163 feet, 3/4 inch2. Delbert White, Kansas State Teachers-Pitt3. Jack Torrance, LSU4. Jess Petty, Rice Institute5. Westley Busbee, Indiana6. Honk Irwin, Texas A&M


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Javelin 1. Duane Purvis, Purdue - 216 feet, 6-1/4 inches2. Bud Sample, Arizona3. Demaris, Oregon4. Nathan Blair, LSU5. Beggs, Geneva6. Frank Williamson, USC


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Shot put 1. Jack Torrance, LSU - 52 feet, 10 inches2. Hueston Harper, USC3. LeRoy Dues, Detroit City College4. Elwyn Dees, Kansas5. Henri Laborde, Stanford6. Honk Irwin, Texas A&M


1933 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Hammer throw 1. Roderick Cox, Michigan - 156 feet, 3/4 inch2. Chester Cruikshank, Colorado Aggies3. Noble Biddinger, Indiana4. Gantt Miller, West Virginia5. Peter Somfeld, Pomona Col.6. Earl Johnson, Ohio State


1933 NCAA Wrestling Championships
The 1933 NCAA Wrestling Championships were the 6th NCAA Wrestling Championships to be held. Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hosted the tournament at Taylor Gymnasium.


1933 NCAA Wrestling Championships
There were no official team ratings, however, with three champions each Iowa Agricultural College and Oklahoma A&M are often cited as co-champions.


1933 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Alan Kelley of Oklahoma A&M was awarded the Outstanding Wrestler trophy. Pat Johnson of Harvard, who took third place, received an award for being runner-up in the OW voting.


1933 NCAA baseball season
The 1933 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1933. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.


1933 NCAA baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1933 season.


1933 NFL Championship Game
The 1933 National Football League Championship Game was the first scheduled championship game of the National Football League (NFL) since its founding in 1920. It was played on December 17 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, and the attendance was estimated at 25,000.


1933 NFL Championship Game
The game was between the champions of the league's newly created divisions: the Chicago Bears (10–2–1) of the Western Division and the New York Giants (11–3) of the Eastern Division. Chicago gained the home field due to a better winning percentage in the regular season; after this year the home field alternated, with the Eastern Division champion hosting in even-numbered years and the Western in odd.


1933 NFL Championship Game
Chicago scored the winning touchdown with less than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter, capping a 23–21 victory. It was the Bears' second consecutive championship and third under founder and head coach George Halas.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Background
Before the 1933 season, new Boston Redskins owner George Preston Marshall suggested to the NFL's owners that the league make some rule changes to increase the excitement of the game, including allowing passing from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, and returning the goal posts to the goal line (which was changed in 1973). Marshall then made another proposal a couple of months later: splitting the ten-team league into two divisions of five teams each, and having the winners of each division play each other in a championship game.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Background
Although the owners were hesitant at first, and some believed that this brash new owner thought their game needed overhauling, the logic of his arguments won out, and they were implemented.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Background
Before the season, the Giants acquired University of Michigan All-American quarterback Harry Newman, and versatile free agent halfback Ken Strong. The Giants finished the regular season 11–3, first in the new "Eastern Division", and Newman, center Mel Hein, and Red Badgro were named first team All-NFL. Newman led the NFL in passes completed (53), passing yards (973), touchdown passes (11), and longest pass completion (78 yards), with his passing yards total setting an NFL record.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Background
The Bears went 10–2–1 and won the NFL's new Western Division, led by running backs Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, and quarterbacked by Keith Molesworth. Nagurski and Grange combined for 810 yards rushing, and the game was the teams' third meeting of the season, with the Bears winning the teams' first regular-season match-up 14–10, and the Giants their second 3–0.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Background
Attendance for the game was 25,000, and before kickoff Newman informed officials he would be running several new trick plays in the game so they would not be confused when they saw them.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
The Giants called their first trick play, which was similar to another that was invented much later, early in the first quarter. A shift allowed Mel Hein, the team's center, to be an eligible receiver, but instead of passing the ball to him, after the snap, Newman handed it back to him and, pretending he still had it, dropped back as though he was going to pass. Hein, with the ball hidden under his jersey, ran from the Bears 45-yard line to their 15.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
Hein may have been able to gain more yards, but when he saw the open field in front of him he sprinted toward the goal line instead of waiting for his blockers like he was supposed to. The Giants were unable to score on this drive, as Chicago's defense tightened and they missed a field goal. Jack Manders kicked a field goal late in the first quarter, and another in the middle of the second quarter to give the Bears a 6–0 lead.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
New York responded with a drive in which a 30 yard run ball to Newman who then passed it back to Strong for a touchdown. Strong kicked the extra point making the game 21–16 Giants. Chicago drove to the New York 36-yard line on the ensuing drive, and Nagurski again attempted a jump pass. This time the Giants were ready for the play but were fooled when the receiver, Bill Hewitt, who they were prepared to tackle, lateraled the ball to Karr, who ran 31 yards for the touchdown with under two minutes remaining. Their successful extra point attempt gave them a 23–21 lead.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
The Giants drove to their own 40-yard line on the game's final drive, but running back Dale Burnett missed a wide open Hein on another trick play. Burnett threw a wobbly pass to Hein who was standing uncovered on the Bears 30-yard line. On the game's final play Grange tackled Badgro before he could complete the lateral portion of the hook and ladder play New York was attempting. Grange diagnosed the play correctly, and wrapped up Badgro's arms rather than his legs so he could not pitch the ball to Burnett.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
The Bears repeated as champions with the victory, and the win marked George Halas' second title as head coach.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Legacy
In a story the following day, the Associated Press described it as "probably the most spectacular game of the year" and "a brilliant display of offensive power".


1933 NFL Championship Game, Legacy
The First Fifty Years, a 1969 book that chronicles the first half-century of the NFL, listed the 1933 NFL Championship game as the first of "Ten [Games] That Mattered." The National Football League's first championship game was as good as it should have been," says the book. "There are great occasions and great games, but they rarely get together. In 1933, they did...[.] They were two good teams playing on a meterological [sic] accident, a good field in Chicago in December. About 25,000 came out, the largest crowd since Red Grange first came up, and the game they saw was worth the price." The book concludes that "the game had already shown the fast-moving, high-scoring excitement in pro football's future."


1933 NFL Championship Game, Legacy
Red Grange himself later called the game, "The greatest football game I ever saw or participated in."


1933 NFL Championship Game, Legacy
In 2019, for the NFL's 100th season, the game was named #51 on the list of the greatest NFL games ever played.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Officials
The NFL had only four game officials in 1933; the back judge was added in 1947, the line judge in 1965, and the side judge in 1978.


1933 NFL Championship Game, Players' shares
The gate receipts for the game were about $21,100. Each player on the winning Bears team received about $210, while Giants players made around $140 each.


1933 NFL season
The 1933 NFL season was the 14th regular season of the National Football League. Because of the success of the 1932 NFL Playoff Game, the league divided its teams into two divisions for the first time, with the winners of each division playing in a championship game to determine the NFL champion. Three new teams also joined the league: the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Cincinnati Reds. Also, the Boston Braves changed their name to the Boston Redskins and the Staten Island Stapletons, while still scheduling games against league teams, left the league.


1933 NFL season
The season ended when the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants in the first ever NFL Championship Game.


1933 NFL season, Major rule changes
Due to the success of the 1932 NFL Playoff Game, the league stopped using the exact rules of college football and started to develop its own revisions:


1933 NFL season, Final standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1933 NFL season, Stadium changes
This was also the first season of selected Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee, with the Packers hosting one game in 1933 at Borchert Field. The team would then regularly play two or three home games each year in Milwaukee from 1934 to 1994.


1933 NSWRFL season
The 1933 NSWRFL season was the twenty-sixth season of Sydney’s professional rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership during the season, which lasted from April until September, and culminated in Newtown’s victory over St. George in the final.


1933 NSWRFL season, Season summary
When the Kangaroos sailed for England in July, the NSWRFL premiership, with a mere five rounds completed, was turned on its head. After losing the opening four matches of the season, last-placed Newtown won eleven of their next twelve matches to take the premiership, whilst Wests, who had won four and drawn one of six games, lost several key players and did not win another match. The Magpies lost virtually their entire backline of McMillan, Pearce, Ridley, Mead and the up-and-coming Vic Hey, and also suffered from their refusal to reappoint coach Jim Craig.


1933 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
26th seasonGround: Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Arthur HallowayCaptain(s): Sid Pearce, Ernie Norman


1933 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
26th seasonGround: Marrickville Oval Coach: Charles "Boxer" RussellCaptain: Keith Ellis


1933 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
26th seasonGround: Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Charlie Lynch Captain: George Treweek


1933 NSWRFL season, Finals
In the two semi finals, the top two ranked teams Newtown and St. George beat their lower-ranked opponents Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney. In their semi-final Newtown were reduced to twelve men after former representative fullback Alan Righton broke his leg. The two winners then advanced to the final.


1933 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
The Sydney Sports Ground attracted a large crowd of 18,080 on 9 September to see Newtown take on St George. Both teams were coached by former internationals. St George captain-coach was former Kangaroo and premiership winner with South Sydney Harry 'Mick' Kadwell. Newtown were coached by former dual-international  Charles “Boxer” Russell.


1933 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
The match, refereed by William Fry, was level 5–all at halftime, before the Bluebags finished the stronger to take the premiership.


1933 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
Newtown 18 (Tries: Alf Griffiths 2, Joe Gartner, George Braybrook. Goals: Frank Gilmore 3)


1933 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership final
St George 5 (Tries: Percy Fairall. Goal: Mick Kadwell )


1933 NYU Violets football team
The 1933 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1933 college football season. In their second year under head coach Howard Cann, the team compiled a 2–4–1 record.


1933 National Challenge Cup
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1933 National Challenge Cup
The 1933 National Challenge Cup was the annual open cup held by the United States Football Association now known as the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. As in 1931, the ASL teams played a round robin format instead of direct knockout games. The five New York teams formed the Metropolitan group. The New England group included the three remaining ASL teams along with Victoria Mills of the Southern New England Association who qualified by defeating Fairlawn Rovers. The Round Robin was somewhat unpopular because of the methods used.


1933 National Challenge Cup
Despite a league setup, games tied at the end of regulation were to go into overtime. In the event of a tie in the standings, goal average was used to break the tie. A slight controversy ensued when a game between Boston and Fall River was called at the 78th minute with the score 0-0. Fall River later forfeited the replay leaving Boston tied for first with Pawtucket. The Rangers advanced on better goal average leaving Boston unable to make up the difference in a replay with Fall River or a playoff with Pawtucket.


1933 National Challenge Cup
In the West it was business as usual with the standard knockout procedure and the Stix of St. Louis making their second of what would be six consecutive trips to the national final. Other highlights include Bert Patenaude's five goal performance against Fairhill in the First German Club's first round match on January 14.


1933 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1933 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1933 college football season. In their third season under head coach Edgar Miller, the Midshipmen compiled a 5–4 record and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 90 to 86.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nebraska in the Big Six Conference during the 1933 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Dana X. Bible, the team compiled an 8–1 record (5–0 against conference opponents), won the Big Six championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 138 to 19. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
Nebraska was coming off of yet another very successful season, coach Bible having won his third league championship in four years, and the program had taken four of the last five conference titles. The Cornhuskers were on a roll and were beginning to look unstoppable at any time in the foreseeable future.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Benson, Robert #26 HBBishop, Clair #30 GBoswell, Hubert #23 HBCockburn #14 HBCopple, Leland #39 TDeBus, Warren #43 GHeldt, James #32 GHubka, Elmer #36 GHubka, Ladas #16 GJones, Glenn #15 CJustice, Glenn #31 GKeriakedes, John #50 TKilbourne, Bruce #27 ELaNoue, Gerald #11 HBMasterson, Bernard #33 QBMead, Everett #34 HBMehring, Neal #29 GMeier, Franklin #21 C


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Miller, Jack  QBMilne, James #28 EO'Brien, Gail #46 TParsons, Rollin #19 HBPenny, Thomas Lee #35 EPflum, Walter #47 TReese, Carroll #41 TRoby, John #24 ESauer, George #25 FBScherer, Bernard #44 ESkewes, Glenn #17 FBSmith, Richard #43 CThompson, John Russell #48 TUptegrove, Ed #42 GWilliams, John #22 FBWilson, Jack #37 EYelkin, Virgil #12 E


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas
Nebraska entirely smashed the Texas Longhorns as these teams met for the first time, delivering a sound shutout defeat that left no doubt as to Nebraska's aspirations for the 1933 season. Not once during the previous 7-1-1 season was coach Bible able to play everyone on the roster, but against Texas on this day the backups began to cycle onto the field in the third quarter. The Cornhuskers outgained the Longhorns 320 to 85, and Texas never got closer than the Nebraska 30-yard line.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
If the Texas game had been a statement during the previous week, coach Bible's team apparently felt like it needed to be said again, and louder. The Cornhuskers opened the 1933 conference slate by entirely smashing the Cyclones in Ames, in their second consecutive shutout victory. This time, Nebraska outyarded Iowa State 444 to 22, allowing the Cyclones a single first down through the entire game as once again all players on the Cornhusker roster found playing time. Iowa State's futility against Nebraska all time now reached 4-23-1.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Nebraska, after rolling over the opposition in the first two games, delivered yet another shutout victory in a contest that was not quite the cakewalk as seen so far this season. Both teams got nowhere in the first half, trading punts and turnovers. Kansas State finally made a serious go at scoring shortly after the half, drawing up to Nebraska's 15-yard line before the Cornhusker defense overpowered their efforts and pushed them backwards 18 yards to deny them a score before taking back possession.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Shortly afterward, the Nebraska squad found the end zone, but missed the point after, to go up 6-0. The game still hung in the balance, as a single Wildcat touchdown could win the game if the kick after was good. With less than a minute remaining, Nebraska finally sealed the outcome with a field goal to remain undefeated in conference play. The record of Nebraska domination over Kansas State was further extended, to 16-1-1.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
The 1933 game with Oklahoma started with an unexpected twist, when the Cornhuskers kicked off to the Sooners. The ball went over the kick returners and rolled untouched to a stop in the end zone as the Oklahoma players subsequently began to re-form into an  offensive formation, while waiting for an official to bring the ball up to the 20-yard line to start the first series.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
The alert Cornhusker squad realized that the ball was never touched "down", and Hubert Boswell subtly filtered past the Sooner line to rush up and land on the ball in the end zone, handing Nebraska an instant game-opening 6-0 score. After that, the game was an unremarkable affair filled with errors as the teams combined for thirteen fumbles overall, with the lines apparently evenly matched up. Nebraska's other two scores were more than enough to seal the win, though Oklahoma became the first team to score against the Cornhusker defense on the season. Nebraska remained unbeaten in Big 6 play, and stayed ahead of the Sooners at 9-2-2 all time.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
The Cornhuskers got back to their defensive stonewalling ways after allowing the first touchdown of the season against Oklahoma the week before in a 16-7 win, delivering their fourth shutout in the last five games as the Missouri Tigers were humiliated at home in a driving rain. Missouri's efforts were for naught as Nebraska rolled up 403 yards and twenty-three first downs in Columbia, yet again denying the Tigers possession of the Missouri-Nebraska Bell for the sixth year in a row and sending them farther back in the series to 6-18-3.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
The Cornhuskers overcame a soft start after the Jayhawks managed to dominate the line in the scoreless first period, and it was a spectacular 82-yard pass reception for a touchdown that marked the turning point in front of the overflow homecoming crowd. Kansas never fully recovered from the shift in momentum, and a second Nebraska touchdown as the game waned secured the win, Nebraska's ninth straight going back to 1932, six of those nine being shutout victories. Nebraska finished their conference schedule undefeated and secured another league title, while sending Kansas farther back in the series to 9-29-2.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh
Nebraska traveled to Pittsburgh with a conference title secured and often dominating the opposition, though Pittsburgh was doing much the same to the teams on their schedule. The two seemingly unstoppable squads met in a showdown that the Cornhuskers had awaited since last year, hoping to secure their first win against the Panthers in the bitter series since 1921. The teams fought to a virtual standstill for the first three quarters, with Nebraska turning Pittsburgh away scoreless after three incursions inside the Nebraska 5-yard line, as well as three others inside the 15.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh
Finally, Pittsburgh found a crack in the defensive front and scored the day's lone touchdown on a 3-yard pass in the fourth quarter to decide the game. The Cornhusker undefeated streak was snapped at 13 games, and Nebraska fell to 1-4-3 against Pitt all time. Pittsburgh went on to finish their season 8-1-0, with a final #4 Dickinson System national ranking.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Nebraska edged Iowa in the final seconds in another exciting game, as the 1932 Big Ten Conference scoring leader Hawkeyes gave all the fight that Nebraska wanted and then some in front of another record crowd in Lincoln. Iowa suffered a string of misfortunes which ultimately decided the game, beginning when Iowa fumbled on a third down pass play. The Iowa punter then failed to actually manage to kick the ball on the subsequent play, which handed Nebraska possession of the ball on Iowa's 29-yard line.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Soon Nebraska was 1st and goal at the Iowa 5, when the Hawkeyes firmed up and held, setting the Cornhuskers up with 4th and goal, still on the 5. A surprising trick play ensued when a Nebraska runner scooped the ball from the field goal kicker's hands and scooted into the end zone to score. Late in the game, a poor Nebraska punt pushed back by the high winds gave Iowa a favorable starting spot on Nebraska's 35-yard line.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Two passes later and it was 1st and goal on the Nebraska 1, and two more plays after that Iowa crossed the goal line. The stands were on edge as the seconds ticked away while Iowa prepared to kick the point after, but the ball went low for the miss to cost Iowa the game. The stands erupted in celebration, as the crestfallen Hawkeyes were sent home in defeat, and the Cornhuskers improved in the series to 15-7-3. This was the program's 250th all-time win.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oregon State
Oregon State arrived in Nebraska to face the Cornhuskers for the third time, hoping to get a win after suffering defeats in both previous meetings. The Beavers managed to hold the Cornhuskers to just 6 points in the first half, and were poised to score again in the third quarter when they secured a 1st and goal position on the Nebraska 5-yard line. Nebraska's defense suddenly solidified and sent the Beavers away with no points for their trouble as the quarter ended.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oregon State
It looked like it might be a battle to the end when events suddenly turned against the favor of the Beavers when they flubbed a punt return and then lost their momentum. After that, the game was all Nebraska when Oregon State failed to find traction in the face of a Nebraska safety and two interceptions. Coach Bible sent in the reserves late in the game, and they managed a touchdown of their own in just two plays as time expired. Oregon State was handed their third loss in as many tries against Nebraska, in what was the sixth Cornhusker shutout victory on the season.


1933 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
Once again Nebraska was on top of the Big 6, with five of the last six league titles now owned by the Cornhuskers. Despite the one loss to a Pittsburgh team that was ranked #4 nationwide at the end of the season, the same Dickinson System ranking that gave the Panthers their high ranking also determined that Nebraska was the #2 team nationwide at the conclusion of the season, the one loss to Pitt costing Nebraska what would have been their first National Championship. Coach Bible's career record at Nebraska after five years was now improved to 31-8-6 (.756). Nebraska's overall program record improved to 251-82-26 (.735) while the perfect 1933 conference record moved the Cornhuskers to 74-10-8 (.848) in league play.


1933 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1933 Nevada Wolf Pack football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada in the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1933 college football season. In their second season under head coach Brick Mitchell, the Wolf Pack compiled a 4–4 record (3–0 against conference opponents), was outscored by opponents by a total of 144 to 60, and won the conference championship.


1933 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1932 season 3–3–2 and 2–0–1 in FWC play to finish in second place.


1933 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1933 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the New England Conference during the 1933 college football season. In its 18th season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell, the team played its home games in Durham, New Hampshire, at Memorial Field. The team compiled a 3–3–1 record, and were outscored by their opponents, 65–51.


1933 New Hampshire Wildcats football team, Schedule
The university's website notes that 1933 team captain Robert Haphey had the team's mascot named in his honor during the prior season. The team had procured an actual wildcat, and decided to name it after "the first player to score for NH." Haphey earned that honor, and the wildcat was given his nickname, Skippy. Haphey served in the United States Army from 1934 to 1960, retiring as a lieutenant colonel with service in World War II and the Korean War—he died in November 1989 at age 81.


1933 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team
The 1933 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1933 college football season. In its fifth year under head coach Jerry Hines, the team compiled a 2–6 record (0–4 against conference opponents), finished last in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 100 to 72.


1933 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1933 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Border Conference during the 1933 college football season. In their third and final season under head coach Chuck Riley, the Lobos compiled a 3–4–1 record (2–2 against Border opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and were outscored by a total of 108 to 92. Jack Walton was the team captain.


1933 New Mexico Lobos football team
In January 1934, the university's board of regents announced that Riley's contract as head football coach would not be renewed.


1933 New South Wales referendum
A referendum concerning the reform of the New South Wales Legislative Council was put to New South Wales voters on 13 May 1933 and was passed by the voters with a margin of 2.94%. The text of the question was:


1933 New South Wales referendum
Do you approve of the Bill entitled "A Bill to reform the constitution and alter the Powers of the Legislative Council; to reduce and limit the number of Members of the Legislative Council; to reconstitute the Legislative Council in accordance with the reformed constitution; to amend the Constitution Act, 1902, and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith."


1933 New South Wales referendum, Background
The abolition of the New South Wales Legislative Council had been on the Labor Party agenda since at least federation. However, attempts to abolish the Council did not occur until Labor Premier Jack Lang’s first term of office, however the attempt failed when 2 Labor members voted against the abolition bill and a further 6 were absent from the council. Lang was defeated at the 1927 election and in 1929 the parliament passed an amendment to the Constitution Act which inserted section 7A, requiring a referendum before the Legislative Council could be abolished.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Background
In 1930 Labor MLCs put forward two bills, one to repeal section 7A, the other to abolish the Council. Believing that a referendum was necessary before the bills could become law, the Legislative Council permitted the bills to pass without a division on 10 December. The validity of section 7A and the inability to repeal the section without a referendum were upheld by the Supreme Court on 23 December 1930, a majority of the High Court on 16 March 1931, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on 31 May 1932.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Background
The bills repealing Section 7A and abolishing the Legislative Council could not therefore be presented to the Governor for assent until they had been passed in a referendum. Lang was dismissed in May 1932 and the United Australia Party led by Bertram Stevens, in coalition with the Country Party had a landslide victory at the 1932 election, winning 66 of the 90 seats, with 51.62% of the primary vote.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Background
The number of members of the council had expanded significantly, from 75 on 24 June 1925 to a peak of 125 in September 1932. The response of Stevens was to propose major reforms, replacing the appointed council with one indirectly elected to 12 year terms and reducing the number to 60.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Yes case
A statement issued by the Stevens government stated that the most important provisions of the proposal were to


1933 New South Wales referendum, Yes case
In response to Labor's assertion that the council could block its abolition Henry Manning, the Attorney General stated that the council could neither veto nor obstruct with success. There was no basis for the claim that an abolition bill could only originate in the council.


1933 New South Wales referendum, No case
The proposal was opposed by both Lang Labor and Federal Labor. Lang, in opening his no campaign, described the reform bill as a plot to install the fascist New Guard in charge of parliament, and that there would be no referendum to abolish the council as the Governor or the council could obstruct the proposal by refusing to cooperate with the deadlock provisions. James Scullin, leader of the federal party, stated that the proposal was a violation of democratic principle and that it was the right of the people to elect their representatives. Scullin reiterated Labor's policy of abolishing all legislative councils.


1933 New South Wales referendum, No case
On a practical level the United Australia Party had a majority in both houses such that they would have a majority in the reformed council and the influence of that majority would continue for many years, with Scullin describing it as a scheme to entrench one party in power. The Australian Worker described it as loaded against Labor and "a scheme to keep Labor legislation off the statute book for the next 20 years or more.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Aftermath, Court challenge
The referendum was challenged on the basis that copies of the Bill were not given or made available to electors. The Full Court of the Supreme Court, Harvey Chief Judge in Equity, Justice Long Innes and Justice Davidson rejected the contention that submitting the bill to the electors meant handing a copy to each elector, holding that it merely meant that there should be a vote of electors. The court also rejected a contention that the 1929 bill for the reform of the council and the 1930 bill for the abolition of the council had to be submitted at the same time.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Aftermath, 1934 Legislative Council election
The election was held at a joint sitting of parliament in November 1933 with the United Australia and Country coalition winning 35 of the 60 seats.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Subsequent referendums
The Labor's platform of abolishing the legislative council was put to a referendum in 1961, but not until after significant opposition, not only from the Liberal and Country parties but also within the Labor party itself. Despite the views of Henry Manning in 1933 when the 'Constitution Amendment (Legislative Council Abolition) Bill' came before the Legislative Council on 2 December 1959, the council resolved 33 votes to 25 to send it back to the Legislative Assembly on the grounds that such a bill should have originated in the council. This was passed with the support of seven Labor members crossing the floor. On 6 April 1960 the bill was sent back to the council, which returned it to the assembly on the same grounds.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Subsequent referendums
As a result of the deadlock, Heffron requested the Governor to order a joint session of parliament on 20 April, a session which lasted two hours and was boycotted by the opposition. On 12 May the Assembly resolved that the bill be submitted for a referendum. However, later that day the leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council, Hector Clayton, started legal action seeking to prevent a referendum. As Manning had stated, the council could neither veto nor obstruct the referendum with success.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Subsequent referendums
The full court of the Supreme Court of New South Wales found that the government had complied fully with the intention of section 5B, while the High Court denied the plaintiff special leave to appeal. In January 1961, Heffron announced the date of the referendum for 29 April 1961. However, despite the lack of time allocated for a campaign, the Liberal/Country opposition led by Robert Askin spearheaded a strong campaign centred on warnings of a Labor-dominated single house subject to "Communist and Trades Hall influence". As a result, the referendum on 29 April was categorically rejected with 802,512 votes (42.4%) for abolition and 1,089,193 votes (57.5%) against.


1933 New South Wales referendum, Subsequent referendums
The referendum, while defeated, sparked discussion on future reform of the then indirectly elected Council, culminating in the 1978 referendum which overwhelmingly endorsed the reforms proposed by the Neville Wran Labor Government including the direct election of members. Since these reforms removed many of the arguments against the upper house, another question on abolition is unlikely.


1933 New Year Honours
The 1933 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1932.


1933 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1933 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Privy Councillor
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:


1933 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, King's Police Medal (KPM)
His Majesty has also graciously consented to the King's Police Medal being handed to the next-of-kin of the deceased officers whose names appear below, and who would have received the decoration had they survived:


1933 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1933 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1932 and the beginning of 1933, and were announced on 2 January 1933.


1933 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1933 New York City aldermanic election
Elections were held on November 7, 1933 to fill the 65 seats of the New York City Board of Aldermen. Having been hitherto relegated to one seat held by Joseph Clarke of the 3rd district, Republicans were able to win 17 seats.


1933 New York City aldermanic presidential election
An election was held on November 7, 1933 to elect the President of the New York City Board of Aldermen, along with other contests such as the mayoralty, Comptroller, and aldermen. Democratic incumbent Joseph V. McKee had resigned earlier in the year to assume the office of Mayor after Jimmy Walker had resigned that position, and the aldermanic presidential post was occupied by Dennis J. Mahon in the meantime. Republican candidate Bernard S. Deutsch defeated Democratic candidate Milton Solomon and Recovery Party candidate Natan Straus Jr. to win the position.


1933 New York City borough president elections
Elections were held for New York City's five borough presidencies on November 7, 1933, the same day as aldermanic elections, the aldermanic presidential election, and the mayoral election. Republicans or Fusionists won Queens, Brooklyn, and Richmond, while Democrats retained office in Manhattan and The Bronx. This gave mayor-elect Fiorello H. La Guardia control of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.


1933 New York City mayoral election
The New York City mayoral election of 1933 took place on November 7, 1933 in New York City. Incumbent Democratic Mayor John P. O'Brien, who was elected in a special election after the resignation of Mayor Jimmy Walker, faced Republican Congressman and 1929 mayoral candidate Fiorello La Guardia, and former acting mayor and President of the New York City Board of Aldermen Joseph V. McKee, who became acting mayor after Walker's resignation until the special election, and ran on the Recovery Party line. There were also several other third-party candidates. O'Brien was defeated by La Guardia, coming in third place despite his endorsement by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season
The 1933 New York Giants season was the franchise's 51st season. The team won the National League pennant and defeated the American League (AL) pennant winner Washington Senators in the World Series.


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, World series, Game 1
October 3, 1933, at the Polo Grounds in New York City


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, World series, Game 2
October 4, 1933, at the Polo Grounds in New York City


1933 New York Giants (MLB) season, Farm system
Attleboro club moved to Lawrence, May 26, 1933, and then to Woonsocket, July 18


1933 New York Giants season
The 1933 New York Giants season was the franchise's 9th season in the National Football League.


1933 New York Giants season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1933 New York Yankees season
The 1933 New York Yankees season was the team's 31st season in New York and its 33rd season overall. The team finished with a record of 91–59, finishing 7 games behind the Washington Senators. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.


1933 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1933 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1933 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1933 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1933 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1933 New York state election
The 1933 New York state election was held on November 7, 1933, to elect a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly. Besides, four amendments to the State Constitution were proposed.


1933 New York state election, History
In 1933, there was only one state officer to be elected statewide: a judge of the Court of Appeals, to succeed Cuthbert W. Pound, who had been elected Chief Judge in 1932. Leonard C. Crouch had been appointed in March 1932 to the seat when Pound was appointed temporarily Chief Judge. Crouch was re-appointed in January 1933 after Pound's taking office for his elected term.


1933 New York state election, History
The Republican State Convention met on September 14 at the National Republican Club in New York City, W. Kingsland Macy presided. They endorsed the Democratic nominee Leonard C. Crouch.


1933 New York state election, History
The Democratic State Committee met on October 2 at Albany, New York, U.S. Postmaster General James A. Farley presided. The incumbent Leonard C. Crouch was nominated to succeed himself.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
The 1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held on 12 October 1933 to choose the third leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. The election was won by Auckland West MP and incumbent deputy-leader Michael Joseph Savage.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Background
Previous Labour leader Harry Holland had led the party since 1919. He led them unsuccessfully in five elections between then and 1931. Holland had died attending the funeral of the Maori king on 8 October 1933, leading to the position of party leader to become vacant.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Michael Joseph Savage
Michael Joseph Savage had served as a Member of Parliament since 1919. Most saw Savage, the deputy leader as the natural successor to Holland. Longtime colleague Peter Fraser ruled out running and openly backed Savage.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, John A. Lee
Lee was a flamboyant socialist who had aspirations of leadership himself. He sought nominations from both Fraser and Frank Langstone. Langstone offered him support if he decided to stand. However once Fraser nominated Savage, Lee declined, thinking it obvious that he would not succeed.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Peter Fraser
Peter Fraser was another proposed option as leader, but ruled out running for the leadership himself in favour of Savage.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Result
As Savage was the only candidate officially nominated, he won the leadership unopposed. Savage's chief supporter, Peter Fraser, was elected as the new Deputy-leader.


1933 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
Savage led the Labour Party until his death in 1940. He led them to successive election victories in 1935 and 1938, becoming New Zealand's first Labour Prime Minister.


1933 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1933 New Zealand rugby league season was the 26th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1933 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New South Wales Rugby League's St. George Dragons toured, playing five matches. St. George defeated Taranaki 22-14 in New Plymouth before defeating Devonport 19-8 and Newton 30-23. St. George then lost to Marist 25-11 and Richmond 5-3. All four Auckland matches were played at Carlaw Park. The Richmond-St. George match was labelled the "roughest game since Carlaw Park was opened". The Auckland Rugby League then organised a match between the two "Dragon slayers", in which Richmond defeated Marist 31-8.


1933 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Northern Union Cup
West Coast held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season. They defeated South Auckland 8-6 in Huntly to win the trophy.


1933 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Devonport won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy and the Stormont Shield. Richmond won the Roope Rooster and the Norton Cup.


1933 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
New Brighton and the Pirates club from Phillipstown gamed senior status.


1933 Nice Grand Prix
The 1933 Nice Grand Prix (officially the II Grand Prix de Nice) was a Grand Prix motor race held at Nice on Sunday, 6 August 1933.


1933 Nice Grand Prix
Compared to the relatively small 1932 Nice Circuit Race the 1933 race was a serious Grand Prix with almost all the best known drivers of the time in competition. The street course followed the best known roads in the famous holiday resort, up and down the Promenade des Anglaise (with a 1.4 km straight allowing speeds up to 200 km/h to be reached), the Avenue Verdun, around the Place Masséna, Avenue des Phocéens and Quai des Etats Unis. In common with several other Grand Prix in 1933 the grid starting positions were decided according to practice times. Tazio Nuvolari had his third consecutive Grand Prix win.


1933 Nice Grand Prix, Notes
Exact number of laps completed by retired drivers is not known for certain, values shown above are taken from available sources


1933 Nigerian general election
General elections were held in Nigeria in 1933. The Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) won three of the four elected seats in the Legislative Council.


1933 Nigerian general election, Electoral system
The 1922 Nigeria (Legislative Council) Order in Council provided for a 46-member Legislative Council, of which 23 were ex-officio officials, four were nominated officials, up to 15 were appointed unofficial members and four were elected (three in Lagos and one in Calabar).


1933 Nigerian general election, Electoral system
The 23 ex officio officials included the Governor, the Chief Secretary and their deputy, the Lieutenant Governors and secretaries of the Northern and Southern Provinces, the Attorney General, the Commandant of the Nigerian Regiment, the Director of Medical Services, the Treasurer, the Director of Marine, the Comptroller of Customs, the Secretary of Native Affairs, together with ten senior residents.


1933 Nigerian general election, Electoral system
The franchise was restricted to men aged 21 or over who were British subjects or a native of Nigeria who had lived in their municipal area for the 12 months prior to the election, and who earned at least £100 in the previous calendar year. The right to vote was withheld from those who had been convicted of a crime and sentenced to death, hard labour or prison for more than a year, or were of "unsound mind". Only 1,118 people registered to vote in Lagos out of a population of 126,108, whilst just three registered in Calabar (the population of the town was 16,653 according to the 1931 census).


1933 Nigerian general election, Electoral system
All eligible voters could also run as candidates unless they had an undischarged bankruptcy, had received charitable relief in the previous five years or were a public servant. Candidates were required to obtain the nomination of at least three registered voters and pay a £10 deposit. The term of the council was five years.


1933 Nigerian general election, Campaign
Four candidates contested the three Lagos seats, of which three were NNDP incumbents (Crispin Adeniyi-Jones, Eric Moore and T. A. Doherty). The other candidate, Olayinka Alakija, was a barrister. In Calabar C. W. Clinton was the only candidate, and was elected unopposed.


1933 Nigerian general election, Results, List of members
Governor Donald Cameron appointed 14 unofficial members to the Legislative Council, of which seven were Europeans and seven Africans. The seven Europeans represented commercial interests, with three representing the banking, mining and shipping sectors, and four representing commercial interests of Calabar, Kano, Lagos and Port Harcourt. The seven Africans represented African Traders, the Colony of Lagos, Oyo Province, Rivers district, the Egba and the Ibo,  as well as one seat representing the cities of Benin and Warri.


1933 Nigerian general election, Results, List of members
Unlike the previous elections in 1928 when there were only two new appointees, six of the Africans appointed to the council in 1933 were new (only I T Palmer was reappointed), whilst there were four new members amongst the commercial appointees.


1933 Nigerian general election, Aftermath
During the term of the Legislative Council, several members were replaced; T H W Beard became the appointed Calabar member on 12 June 1934. In 1935 W T Ogden became the Shipping member on 2 March, A Egbe became the appointed member for Benin-Warri on 4 March and N D Oyerinde became the appointed member for Oyo Province on 20 May, whilst G T Basden left the council on 1 December and was not replaced. On 29 November 1937 R M Williams of the United Africa Company became the new appointed member for Lagos and D D Beard was appointed as the Banking member.