UCLA at USC
Saturday, November 30, 1940 Share
USC beat UCLA 28–12. It was their seventh meeting; after it, USC led the series 5–0–2 as played.
FinalHigh 77°F, low 55°FAttendance 65,000
In the newspapers

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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
USC 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every UCLA–USC gameOfficially, USC leads 52–34–7; as played, 54–34–7 in 95 meetings, counting the 88 since this game.
| 2025 | USC 29, UCLA 10 | |
| 2024 | USC 19, UCLA 13 | |
| 2023 | UCLA 38, USC 20 | |
| 2022 | USC 48, UCLA 45 | |
| 2021 | UCLA 62, USC 33 | |
| 2020 | USC 43, UCLA 38 |
Around this game
UCLA
- Next gamevs. Washington StateSept. 26, 1941
- SeasonUCLA in 1940
- ProgramUCLA history and records
USC
- Next gamevs. Notre DameDec. 7, 1940
- SeasonUSC in 1940
- ProgramUSC history and records

