UCLA at USC

Thursday, November 26, 1936

UCLA and USC tied 7–⁠7. It was their third meeting; after it, USC led the series 2–⁠0–⁠1 as played.

AwayUCLA6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1936
7
HomeUSC4–⁠2–⁠3 in 1936
7

FinalHigh 82°F, low 47°FAttendance 85,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: UNDERDOC UCLA ELEVEN IN TIE With TR0JANS Southern California Passing Attack Evens Score In Third Quarter

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 27, 1936, page 1

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    UNDERDOC UCLA ELEVEN IN TIE With TR0JANS Southern California Passing Attack Evens Score In Third Quarter LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.-UCLAs Bruins, doped to take the short end of the score, fought the Trojans of the University of Southern Califor- MIA to seven to seven standstill before crowd of eighty-five thousand grid fans here yesterday afternoon The Bruins scored first, getting their touchdown in the second quarte-, but the Trojans came back in the third period to tie the score with a brilliant aerial attack.

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)

USC 61% to win.

Officially, USC leads 52–⁠34–⁠7; as played, 54–⁠34–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025USC 29, UCLA 10
2024USC 19, UCLA 13
2023UCLA 38, USC 20
2022USC 48, UCLA 45
2021UCLA 62, USC 33
2020USC 43, UCLA 38

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