California at Washington

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 27, 1940, page 27

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  SEATTLE. Oct. 26.-Recovering form the effects of “Pickett’s charge” which put them in the hole, the Washington Huskies came from behind in the fourth quarter today to defeat an underrated California football team, 7 to 6. Gene Picket, Long Beach (CalifJ sophomore halfback who wasn’t supposed to be much of ball packer-he specializes in throw ing the pigskin around left-handed shot inside right tackle; blasted his way through the secondary. and went over the goal line, Sc yards distant, to give the invaders a 60 lead early in the third quarter. Halfback Ernie Steele of WASH ington started the winning drive with a 20-yard punt return to his own 40. A roughing penalty on the play gave the Huskies the ball on the Bear As.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 28, 1940, page 5

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  Washington. ;||l|iI on. Noses Out California Huskies Win Hard Fought Gridiron Game by 7–⁠6 Score SEATTLE, Oct. 23.-Thc Univer- sity of Washington HuskieS came from behind in the fourth quar- terlast Saturday afternoon to de- feat the hard-driving and stubborn California team ‘ to 6. California scored in the third period on a 56-yard touchdown run by Gene Pickett. The Huskies drove 45 yards for their touchdown, Walt Johnson going over from the one-yard line and John Mizen kicking the win ming point.

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.

Washington leads 55–⁠41–⁠3 in 99 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.