Olympic Club at California
Saturday, October 21, 1922 Share
California beat Olympic Club 25–0. It was their ninth meeting; after it, California led the series 6–1–2.
FinalHigh 84°F, low 51°FAttendance 30,000
In the newspapers

The New York herald, October 24, 1922, page 15
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Centre will not play Harvard again but 1t Will continue to come North. Red Roberts said last Saturday night that bogotiatfons were being carried on with dartmouth for samo In Boston and Nth Colgate for battle at the Polo Grounds. Boston College also would illse to schedule the Praying ColoneIs. 10 VIII have no trouble at all In get iing engagements in this section of the country. Flash” Covington. tho Centre quaricrback. made a strong bid for national iccognition and was the most capable runner we have seen this season. How ever George Owen. the Harvard star, ‘ooked pretty good while he was in there. He did not stay in long Roberts ‘layed a whale OF game, roofing out Interference and crashing through the Harvard line for ine gains. Red is not polished football player--but he’s a Berserlser. II you like to fool around with com parative scores. hero are a few you can play with Columbia, 10: Wesleyan. 6 /: lIobart. 20; N. Y. u, o: Wesleyan. IL !: Hobart. o. “. Y. u, z; Columbia, g. The utter foolishness OF trying 10 prove anything through comparative scores may be demonstrated through various other combinations. California seems 60 be king OF the roost again out on the Pacific coast. Last Saturday Il defeated the Olympic club. 25 to 0. and the Olympic had beaten Stanford. 81 20 0. California won over Santa Clara. 45 TO II, and Stan ord could do no better than to o. The Bears trounccd ST. Mary’s, II to 0, and Stanford had tough time beating that team last Saturday by Q TO 0. We hear that California Is fully as strong as Il vas last ycar--which Is bad news in deed for Stanford.
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)
California 93% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Olympic Club–California gameCalifornia leads 14–4–2 in 20 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.
Around this game
Olympic Club
- Next gameat CaliforniaOct. 13, 1923
- SeasonOlympic Club in 1922
- ProgramOlympic Club history and records
California
- Next gameat USCOct. 28, 1922
- SeasonCalifornia in 1922
- ProgramCalifornia history and records
