Washington at UCLA
Saturday, October 8, 1938 Share
UCLA beat Washington 13–0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Washington led the series 4–1.
FinalHigh 74°F, low 51°FAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 10, 1938, page 5
Read the text
J. WASHINGTON LOSES TO UCLA LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 10. - U.CL.A. rose to one of the greatest gridiron triumphs last Saturday af- ternoon when they defeated the highly favored University of Wash ington 13 to o in a Pacific Coast Football Conference battle. It was the first time U.CLA. has been able to score against the Uni versity of Washington. The Huskies just played in hard luck plus super playing of U.C.L.A. The Huskies have not yet won 8 game this football season.
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
- YANKS SWEEP WORLD SERIESThe U.C.L.A. “Uclans” show amazing prowess by downing the highly-favored Washington “Huskies” in a West Coast upset, 13-0
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)
Washington 54% to win. UCLA won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Washington–UCLA gameUCLA leads 42–34–2 in 78 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.
| 2025 | Washington 48, UCLA 14 | |
| 2024 | Washington 31, UCLA 19 | |
| 2022 | UCLA 40, Washington 32 | |
| 2021 | UCLA 24, Washington 17 | |
| 2018 | Washington 31, UCLA 24 | |
| 2017 | Washington 44, UCLA 23 |
Around this game
Washington
- Next gamevs. Oregon StateOct. 15, 1938
- SeasonWashington in 1938
- ProgramWashington history and records
UCLA
- Next gameat CaliforniaOct. 15, 1938
- SeasonUCLA in 1938
- ProgramUCLA history and records