Washington at Oregon

Saturday, November 13, 1920

Oregon beat Washington 17–⁠0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Oregon led the series 3–⁠0–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayWashington1–⁠5 in 1920
0
HomeOregon3–⁠2–⁠1 in 1920
17

FinalHigh 53°F, low 39°F, 0.07 in. of rainAttendance 5,000

In the newspapers

  • The East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current's story: OREGON EVENS SCORES AGA|NS TIME HONORED WASHINGTON BATTLERS Victory of Lemon Yellow Over Purple and Gold Saturday Was Decisive and Earned !; Aggie Contest Holds Lime light.

    East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, Oregon, November 15, 1920, page 7

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    OREGON EVENS SCORES AGA|NS TIME HONORED WASHINGTON BATTLERS Victory of Lemon Yellow Over Purple and Gold Saturday Was Decisive and Earned !; Aggie Contest Holds Lime light. Old scores were evened sa’rday afternoon when the University Of Ore gon football machine took it’s time honored rival, the University OF Wash. ington, down the line ~ to at Eugene. II was a large day for the wear crs Of the lemon-yellow and their VIC tory over the Seattle eleven was deserved. The individual work Of Bill steers In this game reminded OF the football OF Pre-war days Single handed he carried or booted the pigslkin 10 every one Of the II markers scored by his team. He was given wonderful assist ance by the oregon line in opening holes and by his fellow backs In rum ming interference. But the fact remains that only man OF Steers cali Der would have taken the advantage he did Of the openings presented. Evcns Count of Years Oregon’s victory evens the count Of Victories by the two teams In the pres ont century. Each has won and lost seven games and tied two Not since 1917 has Washington had look In. The last great game betweeh Oregon and Washington was q 90 tie at Eugene in 1916. Dobie’s last year. Washington state College, playing at home. managed to put over four touchodwns on the o. a. c. eleven and win 2s to 0. Both teams played with patched line-ups but the advantage lay with Gus Welch’s boys and they made the best Of It. As result Of their victory Saturday the crimson and gray claim the championship Of the north west and there is none to dispute them, / for they have played their final game In this section. With the two Interstate games out Of the way, interest viii now turn to

  • The The Alaska daily empire's story: OREGON J, DOWNS WASHINGTON BY .17 TO Q SCORE Huntington Men too Strong For Seattle Team-Wash- ington State Beats Aggles.

    The Alaska daily empire, Alaska, November 15, 1920, page 5

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    OREGON J, DOWNS WASHINGTON BY .17 TO Q SCORE Huntington Men too Strong For Seattle Team-Wash- ington State Beats Aggles. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.-The University of Oregon’s eleven, last years Pacific Conference champions, took the measure of University ot Washington r to 0 at Eugene, Ore, Saturday while Washington State rolled up a 28 to score against the Oregon Aggies. No other Pacific Conference games were played Other Western foot ball results follow: University of Colorado ‘, Colo rado School of Mines 0. Utah Aggies 21, Montana Mines O University of Montana 28, Mon tana State 0. California Freshmen SS, Stanford Freshmen z. University of Southern California 3S, Nevada z Washington State Freshmen IS, University of Washington Freshmen G..

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Oregon 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Washington leads 63–⁠50–⁠5; as played, 56–⁠46–⁠4 in the 106 games on file; the official count covers all 118 meetings, counting the 102 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Oregon 26, Washington 14
2024Oregon 49, Washington 21
2023Washington 34, Oregon 31Pac-12 Championship
2023Washington 36, Oregon 33
2022Washington 37, Oregon 34
2021Oregon 26, Washington 16

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