Oregon at USC
Saturday, October 3, 1936 Share
USC beat Oregon 26–0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, USC led the series 6–0 as played.
FinalHigh 75°F, low 57°FAttendance 35,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 5, 1936, page 5
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TROJANS BEAT OREGON AFTER HARD STRUGGLE Northern Players Resist At tack for First Half, then Give Up LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 5. - The Southern California Trojans aimed a double barreled attack at the University of Oregon last Sat urday afternoon and came out with a 2S to 0 victory. The game was played before 35,000 football fans. Led by Davie Davis, the 160 pound quarterback, the Trojans pushed the Webfooters around two periods be, fore they were able to score, but had no difficulty in the second half

Imperial Valley press, October 5, 1936, page 2 (results column)
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Three Teams in Coast Play A bristling football campaign today left only three Pacific coast conference teams undefeated after two weekends of competition. U.CL.A., Washington State Col lege and use. alone remain in the unbeaten column, and the Bruins are in danger of having their record spoiled next Saturday when they tackle the powerful University of Washington eleven. Saturdays encounters swept Cali fornia, Oregon and Idaho on to the beaten list, while Stanford lost its second straight game. Stanford, which lost by a 14-l3 margin to the Washington State Cougars, faces Oregon next Saturday. California, after falling victim before the onslaught of hard-hitting st. Mary’s College eleven, moves north to Portland Saturday to meet Oregon State College. Jimmie Phelan at Seattle will call in his first veteran backfield Saturday when his squad meets the U.C.L.A. Bruins. He saved them when the Huskies downed Idaho 22–0. Washington State meets the Idaho squad Saturday. University of Montana plays Idaho Southern at Missouri. st. Mary’s plays Loyola Sunday. Santa Clara meets U.S.F. in another Sunday game. The Trojans go east for an intersectional game with Illinois. They trounced Oregon 26 to 0 Saturday.
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 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Oregon–USC gameOfficially, USC leads 38–24–2; as played, 39–24–2 in 65 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.
| 2026 | Oregon 41, USC 27 | |
| 2025 | Oregon 42, USC 27 | |
| 2023 | Oregon 36, USC 27 | |
| 2020 | Oregon 31, USC 24 | Pac-12 Championship Game |
| 2019 | Oregon 56, USC 24 | |
| 2016 | USC 45, Oregon 20 |
Around this game
Oregon
- Next gameat StanfordOct. 10, 1936
- SeasonOregon in 1936
- ProgramOregon history and records
USC
- Next gameat IllinoisOct. 10, 1936
- SeasonUSC in 1936
- ProgramUSC history and records

