Washington at USC

Saturday, December 1, 1934

Washington beat USC 14–⁠7. It was their eighth meeting; after it, USC led the series 6–⁠2 as played.

AwayWashington6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1934
14
HomeUSC4–⁠6–⁠1 in 1934
7

FinalHigh 66°F, low 49°FAttendance 35,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: U. W. CLIMAxES GOOD GRID YEAR BY 14-7 VICTORY Huskies Batter Once-Pow- erful Trojans to Take Third Place, Coast

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 3, 1934, page 5

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    U. W. CLIMAxES GOOD GRID YEAR BY 14–⁠7 VICTORY Huskies Batter Once-Pow- erful Trojans to Take Third Place, Coast LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.-Break- ing the long, long series of Trojan victories over them, the University of Washington Huskies defeated University of Southern Califolnia’s football team here Saturday in the final Pacific Coast Conference grid struggle of the season, IA to ‘. The victory not only gave Coach Jimmy Phelan a win at last over Coacn Howard Jones of the once mighty Trojans. but it placed the Seattle team in third place in the final Conference standings. Stan ford rates first, with Washington State second. The mighty Huskies from the North-beaten only by the Coast champion Stanford club this year combined nice blocking, and mfr ty open field running to score twice and then added a sweet ex- hibitlon of bunting to protect that lead.

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story: U. Of Washington Defeats Southern California l47

    The Nome daily nugget, December 3, 1934, page 1

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    U. Of Washington Defeats Southern California l47 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 The University of Washington football team broke a long series of Trojan victories over them Saturday, when they defeated Southern California by score of fourteen to seven. Thirty thousand people saw the Huslxies tramp down the gridiron for two touchdowns and converts, in the final Pacific Coast Conference game Of thSsseason.

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)

USC 61% to win. Washington won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, USC leads 52–⁠32–⁠4; as played, 53–⁠32–⁠4 in 89 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026USC 25, Washington 21
2024Washington 26, USC 21
2023Washington 52, USC 42
2019Washington 28, USC 14
2016USC 26, Washington 13
2015Washington 17, USC 12

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