Stanford at Oregon

Saturday, October 7, 1939

Oregon beat Stanford 10–⁠0. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 9–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayStanford1–⁠7–⁠1 in 1939
0
HomeOregon3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1939
10

FinalHigh 60°F, low 40°FAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: GRAPHICAL Sets Pace As Oregon Trims Stanford, 100 Takes Aerial for Score, Kicks Conversion, Then Boots Field Goal

    Evening star, October 8, 1939, page 28

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    GRAPHICAL Sets Pace As Oregon Trims Stanford, 100 Takes Aerial for Score, Kicks Conversion, Then Boots Field Goal PORTLAND, Greg, Oct. 7.-University of Oregon fought through the second game Of its sudden death” Pacific Coast Conference schedule today before 10000 fans and added 100 victory over STAN ford to its previous TT tie with Southern California. The Webfoots staged a brilliant aerial drive of so yards in the last half minute of the first period. Stenstrom, Webfoot fullback, in tercepted Albert’s pass on the So yard line. Bob Smith pitched a 10 yarder to Jay GRAPHICAL, then faded deep and rifled one good As yards which the fleet Graybeal dragged in on the 15-yard line and carried over. GRAPHICAL, who did all of today’s scoring, booted the conversion from placement. The Webfoots, thwarted in a sec ond touchdown campaign in the last period by a 5-yard penalty to the 8-yard line, cashed in when GRAPHICAL booted a field goal from the 15-yard line. Stanford made its strongest touch down bids in the first and last periods and twice got inside the Nrouor On

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: STANFORD TRIMMED BY OREGON fl Southern Eleven Is Held SeoreIess by Webfoot Gridiron Players

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 9, 1939, page 4

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    STANFORD TRIMMED BY OREGON fl Southern Eleven Is Held SeoreIess by Webfoot Gridiron Players PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 9.-Oregon last Saturday afternoon added 1O to 0 victory over Stanford before 10000 spectators, to the previous ‘ to ‘ tie with Southern California to establish themselves as one of the favorites in the campaign fol the Pacific Coast Conference Cham pionship. Jay Graybeal scored all of Ore gon’s points, taking 45-yard pass for touchdown and kicking a field goal from placement.

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 9, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Football finals-Alabama State 7, Forhlaln 6 West Virginia 0-Pitt 20 Missouri 0-Ohio Stat 19 Center 6--Army 2 Columbia 7-Yale 10 Louisiana State 26-Holy Cross Carnegie Tech 6-Temple 0 Colgate 0-Duke 37 Texas 17-Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 0-Nebraska 6 Iowa State 0-Kansas 14 Georgia Tech 14-Notre Dame IT Oklahoma 23-Northwestern 0 Stanford 0-Oregon 10 Idaho 6-Oregon State 2 UCLA 14-Washington 2 Washington State eSouthern Cal 27 St. Marys 7-California 3

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)

Oregon 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Stanford leads 47–⁠36–⁠1 in 84 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Oregon 42, Stanford 6
2022Oregon 45, Stanford 27
2021Stanford 31, Oregon 24
2020Oregon 35, Stanford 14
2019Oregon 21, Stanford 6
2018Stanford 38, Oregon 31

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