Washington at Stanford

Saturday, November 5, 1938

Washington beat Stanford 10–⁠7. It was their 17th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 9–⁠5–⁠3.

AwayWashington3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1938
10
HomeStanford3–⁠6 in 1938
7

FinalHigh 65°F, low 42°F, 0.03 in. of rainAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Washington times's story: BOOKIES LAYING CLOSE ODDS ON SATURDAY TILTS

    The Washington times, November 10, 1938, page 38 (results column)

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    BOOKIES LAYING CLOSE ODDS ON SATURDAY TILTS NEW YORK, Nov. 10 q.N.S0. THE punters are going 10 find the odds extremely tight when they start shopping around among the Broadway bookies for prices on this week-ends football games. The books today are quoting no better than to 10, and you pick ‘em on Columbia Navy Oregon State-Stanford, Princeton-Yale and Rice Texas AggieS. Some books are listing Dart mouth and Cornell at 9 to 10 either way, but the majority are quoting 6 to 5 on Dartmouth. Penn is the same price over Penn State. and Notre Dame the same over Minnesota. Unbeaten Santa Clara is only 7 to 5 over St. Mary’S. Lafayette lis 7 to 5 over Rutgers and the same figures go for Northwestern over Michigan and Ohio State over Illinois. The first named in each of the | following games are favorites at 8 to 5. Louisiana State-AubGrn, S. M. y. Arkansas, Tulane-G Georgia, Alabama Georgia Tech, Indiana Iowa, Oklahoma–MiSSouri, and Vii llanova-T Temple. First named favorites at 9 to 5 are Duke Syracuse. Detroit-North Carolina State. Michigan State Marquette, UCla-WiSconsin, and Colorado-Brigham Young. Idaho is listed at 10 to 7 over Washing ton State. Carnegie Tech should be more than to l against Duquesne and the same figures apply for Holy Cross over Brown, Baylor over Loyola of Los Angeles. Tulsa over Drake, Fordham over North Carolima, Georgetown over West Vir ginia. Texas Tech over Gonzaga and Tennessee over Vanderbilt. The to 2 quotations include Colgate over N. Y. u. Utah over Colorado Aggies, and Texas Christ ian over Texas. Iowa State seems reasonably priced at 13 to over Kansas State, and Southern California rates the same odds over Wash ington. Pitt is only 16 to 5 against Nebraska. Florida is 8 to l over Maryland, and Army is 4 to l over Chattanooga. Harvard also is 4 to l against Virginia and Boston College rates the same against Boston University.

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)

Stanford 59% to win. Washington won as Elo’s underdog.

Washington leads 46–⁠43–⁠4 in 93 meetings, counting the 76 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Washington 42, Stanford 33
2022Washington 40, Stanford 22
2021Washington 20, Stanford 13
2020Stanford 31, Washington 26
2019Stanford 23, Washington 13
2018Washington 27, Stanford 23

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