California at Oregon State
Saturday, November 18, 1939 Share
No. 19 Oregon State beat California 21–0. It was their ninth meeting; after it, California led the series 7–2.
FinalHigh 61°F, low 47°FAttendance 9,500
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, Alaska, November 20, 1939, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
Football Scores Football Final November 18 Cornell 35-Dartmouth 6 Princeton 13-Yale 2 North Carolina 3-Duke 13 Carnegie Tech 0-Holycross 21 Nebraska 14-Pitt 13 Michigan 19-Penn IT St. Marys 0-Firdham IA Illinois 0-Ohio State 21 Tulane 25-Columbia 0 Northwestern 0-Norte Dame Oklahoma 6-Missouri ‘ Minnesota 9-IoWa 13 Georgia Tech 6-Alabama 0 Vanderbilt 0-Tennessee Is Texas Christian 19-Texas 25 Texas A and M 19-Rice 0 Oregon State 21-California 0 Washington State 7-Stanford Santa Clara 0-UcLA 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.
On the newsreel
- BONFIRE HERALDS GRID VICTORYThe world's largest bonfire, a towering 85-foot pyre of old boxes, torn-down houses and other odds and ends, is built by Oregon State students and set off on the eve of their football victory over California
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)
Oregon State 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every California–Oregon State gameCalifornia leads 40–37 in 77 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.
Around this game
California
- Next gameat StanfordNov. 25, 1939
- SeasonCalifornia in 1939
- ProgramCalifornia history and records
Oregon State
- Next gameat UCLANov. 25, 1939
- SeasonOregon State in 1939
- ProgramOregon State history and records