Oregon at Oregon State

Saturday, November 21, 1936

Oregon State beat Oregon 18–⁠0. It was their 41st meeting; after it, Oregon led the series 11–⁠7–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayOregon2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1936
0
HomeOregon State4–⁠6 in 1936
18

FinalHigh 52°F, low 40°FAttendance 18,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: OREGON STATE PUTS BEE ON OREGON, 1870 Achieves First Victory in Four Years Over Natural Rival as Joe Gray Stars.

    Evening star, November 22, 1936, page 32

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    OREGON STATE PUTS BEE ON OREGON, 1870 Achieves First Victory in Four Years Over Natural Rival as Joe Gray Stars. BY the Associated fre5S. CORVALLIS, Oreg., November al ~ Oregon State College. led by a feet halfback, Joe Gray, defeated Uni versity of Oregon, l8 to o, today for its first victory in the annual classic in four years. A home coming crowd Of $4,000 saw the game. Gray, man of all work, never scored, but two of his passes, one in the first quarter and another in the second, went for touchdowns and he put the ball almost on the goal line in the fourth period, after which Fullback Kolberg carried 1t over. Oregon almost scored in the first period but officials ruled Nicholson’s knee touched the ground in skirting left end and State took the ball on downs on its l-yard line. But for a clipping penalty, the Beavers might have added a fourth touchdown, Gray’s long pass to Mountain, substitute halfback, who ran across the goal line. being called back in the third period.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: loot BALL &1REsULTs

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 23, 1936, page 1 (results column)

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    loot BALL &1REsULTs The following are ilnal scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: Stanford o. California 20. Oregon State 18; University OF oregon 0. San Francisco Z; Montana “a. Gonzaga 8; College of Puget Sound 0. Wyoming 7; Brigham Young 80 Southwestern oLuisiana O; Louis lana State 49, Minnesota “a; Wisconsin 0. North Dakota II; Idaho 10. Florida IA; Georgia Tech 38. Sewanee 6; Tulane So. Illinois ID; Chicago 7. Indiana 20; Purdue 20, tie. Southern Methodist z; Baylor – Texas A. & M. 0; Centenary 3. Kansas State o; Nebraska 40. Georgia Z; Fordham 7, tie. Harvard 10; Yale ID Marquette o; Duquesne 10. Iowa rs; Temple 0. Arizona o; Michigan State Z. Colgate 10; Syracuse 0. Dartmouth 10; Princeton 10; tie. Hobart T. Army 81. Michigan State 0; Ohio State 81. City College of New York 7; New York University rs. Lehigh 10; Lafayette 0. Bushnell 0; Penn State ID. NORTHWESTERN O; Notre Dame 20. SUNDAY GAME Santa Clara 10; Lolola 6.

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.

On the newsreel

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Oregon State 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Oregon leads 70–⁠49–⁠10; as played, 57–⁠46–⁠6 in the 109 games on file; the official count covers all 129 meetings, counting the 88 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Oregon 41, Oregon State 7
2024Oregon 49, Oregon State 14
2023Oregon 31, Oregon State 7
2022Oregon State 38, Oregon 34
2021Oregon 38, Oregon State 29
2020Oregon State 41, Oregon 38

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