Washington State at California
Saturday, October 9, 1937 Share
California beat Washington State 27–0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, California led the series 10–4–1.
FinalHigh 86°F, low 59°FAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers

Imperial Valley press, October 11, 1937, page 6 (results column)
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FOOTBALL FORM BLOWS up SAT. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. II CUP) Football form was cast to the four winds today and Pacific coast conference followers set themselves for a new series Of upsets in the three conference engagements that top next Saturdays program. Three days ago the forecasters would have been unanimous in picking Washington to beat Wash ingston State, UCLA. to over Wheim Oregon State, and use. to annihilate Oregon. Then came black Saturday and in surprising exhibitions, Oregon State defeated Washington, STAN ford defeated UCL.A. and stopped the Bruins Kenny Washington, and Oregon turned in a lopsided win over a strong Gonzaga team. use. Eeat Chic State OF the big ten 1912 on sub Ralph Stanley’s conversion in the closing minutes of play. Fresh from that 6–3 win ever Washington, Oregon State meets the disappointing UCL.A. team at Corvallis with odds at even money. Washington State failed to show anything against California, losing to the Bears 27–0 but back home in Pullman and remembering the 400 beating they took from Wash ington last year. the Cougars will be cunning hard to give the defend ing champions their second straight defeat. NEW YORK. Oct. Il up

The Daily Alaska empire, October 11, 1937, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BALL @ l2{3SW5 IFS Ml The following are final scores of leading football games played in various parts of the country last Saturday afternoon: oregon 40; Gonzaga Idaho 9; Utah T UCLA T; Stanford l2 Nebraska 20; Iowa State T. Oregon State 6; University of Washington 3. Washington State 0; California 27. Ohio State l2; Southern Califor- mia 13. Northwestern T; Michigan o. Wisconsin 27; Chicago o. Purdue ‘; Carnegie Tech 0. Tennessee 0; Duke 0. ,Notre Dame o: Illinois O. Fordham 48; Waynesburg 0. Pittsburgb 6; Dunuesne 0.
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)
California 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Washington State–California gameCalifornia leads 49–30–5 in 84 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.
Around this game
Washington State
- Next gamevs. WashingtonOct. 16, 1937
- SeasonWashington State in 1937
- ProgramWashington State history and records
California
- Next gamevs. UC DavisOct. 15, 1937
- SeasonCalifornia in 1937
- ProgramCalifornia history and records

