Montana at UCLA
Saturday, October 21, 1939 Share
UCLA beat Montana 20–6. It was their fifth meeting; after it, UCLA led the series 5–0.
FinalHigh 94°F, low 53°FAttendance 25,000
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The Tacoma times, Tacoma, Wash., October 24, 1939, page 8 (results column)
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The Nome nugget, October 23, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores October I Carnegie 0-New York U 6 Notre Dame 14-Navy T Duquesne 1--PittSburgh 13 Princeton 14-Couanbia ‘ Penn 22-HarVard ‘ Yale 20-Army Is Syracuse 6-Duke B North Carolina 14-Tulane IA Ohio State 23-Mmnesota 20 Oregon State 13-Washington ‘ Wash State 7-California 13 Montana 6-UCLA 20 Gonzaga 12-Oregon ? Utah 35-IdIaho 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)
UCLA 85% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Montana–UCLA gameUCLA leads 7–0 in seven meetings, counting the two since this game.
| 1946 | UCLA 61, Montana 7 | |
| 1941 | UCLA 14, Montana 7 | |
| 1939 | UCLA 20, Montana 6 | |
| 1936 | UCLA 30, Montana 0 | |
| 1934 | UCLA 16, Montana 0 | |
| 1932 | UCLA 32, Montana 0 |
Around this game
Montana
- Next gameat IdahoOct. 28, 1939
- SeasonMontana in 1939
- ProgramMontana history and records
UCLA
- Next gamevs. OregonOct. 28, 1939
- SeasonUCLA in 1939
- ProgramUCLA history and records

