Stanford at USC

Saturday, November 11, 1939

No. 4 USC beat Stanford 33–⁠0. It was their 21st meeting; after it, USC led the series 13–⁠6–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayStanford1–⁠7–⁠1 in 1939
0
Home4USC8–⁠0–⁠2 in 1939
33

FinalHigh 83°F, low 57°FAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Tacoma times's story: bronco-UcIa Game Leader

    The Tacoma times, Tacoma, Wash., November 14, 1939, page 12 (results column)

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    bronco-UcIa Game Leader SAN FRANCISCO – With four Pacific Coast conference teams drawing byes this week end, the Santa Clara-U. c. L. A. game at Los Angeles shapes up as the out standing contest OF the coast-an unbeaten but tied Bruin team squaring off against a team that didn’t catch its breath till mid season. Washington, Oregon. Montana and Southern California are idle, the Huskies and Southern Califormia getting their wind back after victories. and Oregon and Montana trying to recover their wits after setbacks. The only two conference games bring together WASH ington State and Stanford at Palo Alto and California and oregon State Mt Corvallis. Idaho meets Denver In Denver while st. Mary’s travels east TO face Fordham In New York. st. Mary’s ran into another Mickey Finn yesterday disguised as San Francisco university. The Dons handed the Gaels their third loss of the season. to 0. II was the first time In the II years the teams have met. under one name or another, that the Dons have won. HAWAIIANs TO PLAY A mid-week encounter on We’d nesday night sends San Diego State, with sorry season record behind II, against the Roaring Rainbows from Hawaii. Hawaii dropped a dipsy-doodle game to Utah In Salt Lake City Saturday, 81 to 10. Nothing that could be classed as an upset was registered in Saturdays games. Washington took California per schedule by a 10 to 6 score. Southern California trounced Stanford 33 to 0. although the Cardinals held Troy to one touchdown in the second half. Santa Clara looked dismal indeed in beating Michigan State 8 to O. Washington State downed Idaho 81 to IS, Oregon State beat its ira ditional rival, Oregon. 10 to IA, and Gonzaga tripped Montana, % to 0. San Jose State and Fresno state continued 10 hold n place among the unbeaten, united teams of the nation, and viii settle their score on Thanks giving day. Fresno State over powered the Portland Pilots 81 10 Is while San Jose was piling up an imposing 81 TO 0 defeat on Redlands. Nevada won its third in a row by downing Greeley State Is to g. Whittier continued to lead the Southern California conference with humping So to 0 win over Occidental, while Pomona nosed out California Tech 20 to Is. Friday night games send Loyols against San jose State in Los An. geles; Fresno State goes to Whit tier: Cal. Tech entertains Red lands; Albion meets Mesa J. c. In Albion. and California Poly goes e San Diego to face the Marines. OTHER GAMES Other Saturday games: Con zaga VS.. Eastern Washington al Spokane, Arizona VS.. College Of Pacific In Tucson. Brigham Young vs.. Colorado at Provo. Wyoming VS.. Utah. State at Laramie, College of Idaho VS.. Whitman at Caldwell Colorado State VS.. Utah at Fort Collins, California Aggies VS.. Chico State at Davis. Tempe Teachers vs.. New Mexico at Tempe. SAINTS Barbara State VS.. Greeley State a Santa Barbara. Sacramento A. C VS.. Humboldt State at Sacramento Oregon Normal VS.. East Oregon Normal at Monmouth. Western Washington VS.. Central Washing ton at Bellingham. and whitwortl VI. Montana Marines at Spokane Pacific Coast conference stand

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 87% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, USC leads 65–⁠34–⁠3; as played, 66–⁠33–⁠3 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 103 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023USC 56, Stanford 10
2022USC 41, Stanford 28
2021Stanford 42, USC 28
2019USC 45, Stanford 20
2018Stanford 17, USC 3
2017USC 31, Stanford 28Pac-12 Championship Game

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