Stanford at San Francisco

Saturday, September 24, 1932

Stanford beat San Francisco 20–⁠7. It was their first meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayStanford6–⁠4–⁠1 in 1932
20
HomeSan Francisco2–⁠6 in 1932
7

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story: ONLY FEW SCATTERED UPSETS MARK COLLEGIATE GRID TILTS Vanderbilt beat Mercer, 20-7. and Virginia conquered Hampden Sydney, 800. Duke beat Davidson. 1870.

    The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, September 26, 1932, page 1 (results column)

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    ONLY FEW SCATTERED UPSETS MARK COLLEGIATE GRID TILTS Vanderbilt beat Mercer, 20–⁠7. and Virginia conquered Hampden Sydney, 800. Duke beat Davidson. 1870. Vanderbilt beat Mercer, 2O-7, and Virginia conquered Hampden Sydney, 800. Duke beat Davidson, 1870. In the east there was nothing to halt the favorites as Pitt beat Ohio Northern, 40; Colgate beat st. Law renee. Al to o; Columbia beat Mid dlebury. 51–⁠0; Cornell sank Buffalo, 72–⁠0, Dartmouth romped over Nor wich, 1910, and Villanova conquered Ursinus, 1872. Holy Cross, however, was hard pressed to score over New River State of West Virginia. 13 to 6, and Rutgers and Lehigh, of the middle three got only ties their opening games, the former with Providence, Go, and Lehigh with Drexel, 1913. Supplanting speed for lack of pow er, the University Of Southern Cali fornia football eleven launched into its 1892 grid schedule by trouncing the Rocky Mountain champions, Utah, IS to 0, before 10000 persons. Trapped in his own lair by fight ing Santa Clara eleven, University of CALIFORNIA; Golden Bear went down to a stunning 1910 defeat while $4,000 fans thrilled to the first victory ever scored by Santa Clara over it’s traditional rival. Stanford trimmed the University of San Francisco, 20 to Z; washington beat Gonzaga, 10 to Z. and WASH ington State turned back the College of Idaho, 40 to 8. In the Southwest conference, Texas beat Daniel Baker, 26 to 0, and the Texas Aggies trimmed Texas Tech, Z to 0. Arkansas, however, was held to 90 tie by Hendrix.

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)

Stanford 86% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Stanford leads 8–⁠0 in eight meetings, counting the seven since this game.

Recent meetings
1950Stanford 55, San Francisco 7
1946Stanford 33, San Francisco 7
1941Stanford 42, San Francisco 26
1940Stanford 27, San Francisco 0
1935Stanford 10, San Francisco 0
1934Stanford 3, San Francisco 0

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