Oregon State at California
Saturday, November 2, 1940 Share
Oregon State beat California 19–13. It was their 10th meeting; after it, California led the series 7–3.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 53°F, 0.16 in. of rainAttendance 20,000
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, November 4, 1940, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores Saturday, Nov ? l4) - Finals Oregon Fresh 0 - Washington Frosh 9. Oregon State 19-California 13 Washington State 26-Idaho 0 Stanford 20-UCLA IA Utah 2O-Colorado 13 Utah State 7-Brigham Young 12. Montana State T – Colorado Mines 21 Monaaa 0-Oregon 38. St. Mary’s 25-Portland 13 Santa Clara 27-University of San Francisco c Georgia Tech 7-Duke Al Temple 1O-Bucknell T Tulsa 7-Dstroit 0 Minnesota l3 - Northwestern l2 Baylor 12-Texas Christian fl Alabama 25-Kentucky 0 New York University 0-Miss- ouri 33 Mississippi 13-Vanderbilt T Louisiana State 0-TeneSsee 28 Purdue 2l-IoWa 6 Clemson 0-Tulane l3 Auburn l3-Georgia IA Illinois 6-Wisconsin 13 Notrs Dame Army 0 Navy 0-Pennsylvania 20 Colgate 6-Holy Cross 0 Dartmouth Observance 0 Brown 6 - Yale 2 Columbia 0-Cornell 27 Princeton 0-Harvard North Carolina 0-Fordham 14 Kansas State 0 - Michigan State l2 Boston College 25-Manhattan / 0. / Indiana 6-Ohio State 2l / Georgetown 28-SyracuSe
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 State 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Oregon State–California gameCalifornia leads 40–37 in 77 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.
Around this game
Oregon State
- Next gamevs. Washington StateNov. 9, 1940
- SeasonOregon State in 1940
- ProgramOregon State history and records
California
- Next gameat USCNov. 9, 1940
- SeasonCalifornia in 1940
- ProgramCalifornia history and records

