Oregon at USC

Saturday, October 16, 1937

USC beat Oregon 34–⁠14. It was their seventh meeting; after it, USC led the series 7–⁠0 as played.

AwayOregon4–⁠6 in 1937
14
HomeUSC4–⁠4–⁠2 in 1937
34

FinalHigh 79°F, low 57°FAttendance 45,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: 1910, confronts Michigan State In their annual fixture. Bears, TroAns Collide.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 18, 1937, page 1 (results column)

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    1910, confronts Michigan State In their annual fixture. Bears, TroAns Collide. Bears, TrojAns Collide. COUTHWEST-Baylor, which flashed real power in crushing Centenary, 100. seeks to protect its Southwest Conference lead against Texas A. and M. Arkansas, ALTO conqueror OF Texas, meets Southern Methodist. Texas and Rice make up the other conference twosome. Far West-The big collision comes at Berkeley. where the Pacific Coast Conference title may be decided in the clash between California and Southern California. California, only unbeaten team in the conference, whipped the California Aggies, 14–⁠0, and College Of Pacific, 300, in a tune-up double header Saturday, while Southern Cali fornia, with Ambrose SCHNEIDER scoring four touchdowns, whipped Oregon, 34–⁠14 Washington, which played Washing ton State to TT draw, meets STAN ford. Washington State travels 10 Los Angeles to face U. c. L. A., tied, TT, by Oregon State. Oregon and Oregon State meet in another confer ence struggle. Santa Clara, victor over Portland, 27–⁠0, plays Loyola OF Los Angeles on Sunday. Rocky Mountain-Utah is the leader with three straight victories, with Colorado and Western State 4 step behind Utah, hard pressed to turn back Greeley, rs, plays Denver, upset, IA, by Colorado College. Western State meets Greeley. Colorado, 14–⁠0 conqueror Of Brig ham Young, plays Colorado State, beaten, TO, by wyoming. Utah State, which held Idaho to 4 scoreless draw, meets wyoming. while Colorado Mines plays Colorado College.

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 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, USC leads 38–⁠24–⁠2; as played, 39–⁠24–⁠2 in 65 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Oregon 41, USC 27
2025Oregon 42, USC 27
2023Oregon 36, USC 27
2020Oregon 31, USC 24Pac-12 Championship Game
2019Oregon 56, USC 24
2016USC 45, Oregon 20

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