Oregon at Oregon State

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  Evening star, December 1, 1940, page 43

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  Oregon Strikes Hard To Down Favored Oregon State # CORVALLIS, Oreg., Nov. 30.-An underdog University of Oregon foot ball team unleashed smashing ground assault today to grind its traditional foe, oregon State, into submission, 90 to 0. Beaten four years straight by the Beavers and facing its last chance to add bit of luster to an other wise dismal season. Oregon started pounding shortly after the opening kickoff. A Homecoming crowd estimated at $4,000 hardly had been seated comfortably before Halfback Leon ard Isberg set up the Webfoots’ first touchdown by returning a kick IS yards to the Oregon State 81. With Isberg and Halfback Buck Berry alternating in sweeping end runs and off-tackle slants, Oregon moved to the Staters’ 2-yard line. Isberg crashed over for the score. Berry’s place-kick try for the. extra point was wide. Oregon scored again in the sec ond and final periods, Halfback Curt Mecham running 81 yards for the third counter.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, December 1, 1940, page 1

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  Underdog Oregon Whips : Oregon State 20 To 0 CORVALLIS, Ore, Nov. 30.-R An underdog University of Ore gon football team unleashed a smashing ground assault today to grind its traditional foe, Oregon State, into submission 20 to 0. Beaten four years straight by the Beavers and facing its last chance to add a bit of lustre to an otherwise dismal eason Oregon started pounding shortly after the opening kickoff.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 2, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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  s||||l2{sf|| The following are final scores oi football games played last. Sat- urday: Army o; Navy IA. Holy Cross 0; Boston College T. Fordham 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Duquesne IA Carnegie Tech T. Georgia Tech 19; Georgia 21 Pittsburgh 2; Duke 12. Washington and Lee T; Maryland ‘, tie. Texas Christian 0; Southern Methodist 16. Mississippi State 13; Alabama 0. Kansas State 0; Nebraska 20 Tennessee 20; Vanderbilt 0. Rice 21; Baylor 12. Stanford 13; California T. Washington State 9; Washington 8. Marquette IA; Arizona IT. Oregon 20; Oregon State 0. UCLA 12; Southern California 28. Oakland 13; Santa Clara 33. The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.

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.

Officially, Oregon leads 70–⁠49–⁠10; as played, 57–⁠46–⁠6 in the 109 games on file; the official count covers all 129 meetings, counting the 84 since this game.