Santa Clara at UCLA

Saturday, November 18, 1939

No. 14 Santa Clara and No. 11 UCLA tied 0–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, the series stood even at 0–⁠0–⁠1.

Away14Santa Clara5–⁠1–⁠3 in 1939
0
Home11UCLA6–⁠0–⁠4 in 1939
0

FinalAttendance 55,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, November 20, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Santa Clara 51% to win.

Tied 3–⁠3–⁠1 in seven meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1951UCLA 44, Santa Clara 17
1949Santa Clara 14, UCLA 0
1946UCLA 33, Santa Clara 7
1942UCLA 14, Santa Clara 6
1941Santa Clara 31, UCLA 13
1940Santa Clara 9, UCLA 6

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