[1] Cliff Montgomery, the Columbia quarterback, was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.
[3] For New Year's Day, 1934, the Lions traveled to Pasadena, California to play the heavily favored Stanford Indians.
In the previous season, the "Thundering Herd" of the 1932 USC Trojans, coached by Howard Jones, defeated Stanford 13–0 on the way to a second consecutive national championship and victory in the 1933 Rose Bowl.
Game day itself was also uncharacteristically rainy for Southern California, and the muddy field rendered the contest scoreless going into the second quarter.
Despite Stanford's Bobby Grayson rushing for 152 yards on 28 carries, and solid performances by end Jim "Monk" Moscrip, lineman Bob Reynolds and others, Barabas' score stood as the only one of the game, handing Columbia one of the biggest upsets in Rose Bowl history.