Washington at Oregon

Saturday, October 12, 1940

Washington beat Oregon 10–⁠0. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Oregon led the series 11–⁠9–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayWashington7–⁠2 in 1940
10
HomeOregon4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1940
0

FinalHigh 71°F, low 51°FAttendance 31,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Washington Hurdles Oregon in Quest OF Coast Title First-HoIf Thrust, KicS In Third Period Tell For 100 Triumph

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1940, page 30

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    Washington Hurdles Oregon in Quest OF Coast Title First-HoIf Thrust, KicS In Third Period Tell For 100 Triumph BY the ASSOCIATED DTesS. PORTLAND, Greg, Oct. IL Washington’s Huskies today took an important stride toward the Pacific Coast Conference football cham pionship by elbowing Oregon out Of their way, 100. Oregon fought stubbornly and parted most of the Huskies’ scoring bids, but the big purple and gold team got a drive under way at the tail-end of the first half that paid of. Washington supplemented the margin by 3 points gained on Mizen’s place-kicked field goal from the II -, &L{rS vHorind

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-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)

Oregon 51% to win. Washington won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Washington leads 63–⁠50–⁠5; as played, 56–⁠46–⁠4 in the 106 games on file; the official count covers all 118 meetings, counting the 83 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Oregon 26, Washington 14
2024Oregon 49, Washington 21
2023Washington 34, Oregon 31Pac-12 Championship
2023Washington 36, Oregon 33
2022Washington 37, Oregon 34
2021Oregon 26, Washington 16

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