Stanford at Oregon State

Saturday, October 11, 1941

Oregon State beat Stanford 10–⁠0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 12–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayStanford6–⁠3 in 1941
0
HomeOregon State8–⁠2 in 1941
10

FinalHigh 62°F, low 52°FAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story

    Imperial Valley press, California, October 13, 1941, page 2

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    weekend S,lAer struck a blow for Nebraska and Orcgon State. Score Oregon state 10. Stanford 0. “!H” Lev program in the Boil game on jar. ! Four of the teams hat PLAYED Ill the l94l Bowl gamos alf”ady nave been defeated and the Y.ld viii no’ be smoother from here on rdt Tnp lmluckv ones are Teances”” Boston College, Stanford 2md Georgetown f’.- n,u=acctivn All-Americarc seen by this department in l94l il Dcrarc Ncscr Of the ToXag Aqeic2 Z” run- passr@ and kicks. His only VI: .k!c flaw j. that he has not i.a:I”d 10 oerft .hc witcr bl.kc,, “‘ .’.’‘ ,ti.ns = l’W drons. IM, no somc football philo,o- 1Ggr ~ p”rrs HaurItone daya ccin. ri thr drathlc,s pharGo: The GAM I,nt over Gntil the final whistle bloWs’ Wisconsin and New York n ,cIng Wrrc cou0l1 OF teams tha’ learned the truth of that aXiOm. A onc stage of each game, bc’h he’d rosy dreams Of a terrific upsc’ .rcCrc At The end of the first po”‘rd Wisconsin IA, Northwestern “A FIpal scorr. Northwestern Al, WJscGN4M IA Score at the end of ‘hc first half. New York U. 7, Texas to”Irs Z Fihal score: Texas AggIcs ~ N”T Tnrk y I. Pei rI,n oo Saturdays schedule “orjhNcs’r2 “ Michigan at Evan .tOl Il,

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Stanford Loses To Oregon State

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 12, 1941, page 19

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    Stanford Loses To Oregon State CORVALLIS. Ore oct. IL Stanford is a fair weather team and its Information can be beaten. Oregon State Beavers demon strated that this afternoon amid a bowling wind and driving rain by defeating the Cardinals. 100. The Oregon State victory ended a string of a dozen straight Stan ford victories under the Clark ShaughnesSy football regime. The defeat was decisive an d fiukeless, with the Beavers shading the Rose Bowl champs in practically every department of the game. Accuracy Of frankie Albert forward passing fips was missing and Pete Kmetovic. ground gain ing left halfback for Stanford was hurt so badly in the first half. he was unable to play the last two quarters.

  • The Evening star's story: Cornell Defeats Harvard Air. TO- While Penn Drives to Top Ya 1913 Oregon State Stops Stanford 0 Nps 7uane 10 Gang Upset Win, Lose .:,:,': or or Draw No. al on the Navy Bench

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1941, page 36

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    Cornell Defeats Harvard Air. TO- While Penn Drives to Top Ya 1913 Oregon State Stops Stanford 0 Nps 7uane 10 Gang Upset Win, Lose .:,:,’: or or Draw No. al on the Navy Bench ANNAPOLIS III sails showed only No the Navy bench jumped front of his held 1o2 Lafayette the field he doomed to talked to the Davis Cup tennis would like action backhed but Joe isn’t complaining He part of great Navy team a of it. bigger playing tennis for Uncle Sam while leather shoulder pads place Well grnned Mid hard question / football better. it’s bigger game United trail way, Hunt answered Its real team game You in all muf football whole pav to in the next minute

  • The The Tacoma times's story: Oregon State Is Favoriie Come With Oregon Looms on Horizon

    The Tacoma times, Tacoma, Wash., October 17, 1941, page 17 (results column)

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    Oregon State Is Favoriie Come With Oregon Looms on Horizon Los ANGELEs-Oregon State, scrsppy footballers. coming from nowhere after losing the seasons opener To Southern California have firmly installed themselves as favorites 10 cop the coveted assignment Of representing the Pacific Coast conference in the Rose Bowl game New Years day. Their latest victory and the one that clinched them their place in the sun was last Saturdays sur prising but convincing defeat OF Stanford 10 to 0. A week earlier they had dumped Jimmy Phelans Washington Huskies. 2 10 g. The Beavers should have an easy time with California. UCLA and Washington State and the only big fly In the ointment Ia Oregon. This IL the last game Of the season and IL always q dog-cat-dog affair. The Webfeet have one of the nations hest hacks In Curtis Mecham and their line probably IL a match for the Oregon State forward wall. California has an unfortunate assignment against Oregon at Portland Saturday. The Webfeet play hard, fast football as dis played In their 30 to 8 triumph over Southern California last week. BRONCOS PUSH BEARS The Bears got pushed around by Santa Clara last week 13 to o and 1t might have been worse. Statistics showed that California wound up in the minus column in ground gaining from rushing. Southern California. whose performance in their last two games has Trojan rooters writing. meets Washington State here IN Memorial coliseum. And II Billy sewells passing arm is in good shape. the Trojan rooters will have some more writing to do. Stanford. which like Ore gon State has lost one out Of three conference games. has n chance to catch up with itself and should have a holi- day against San Francisco university. II Also gives Pete kmetovic, Its star back. an other week In which 10 recover from the injury he received In the Oregon State game. UCLA TO SEATTLE A weak UCLA team travels TO Seattle this week and should get a thorough going-over from WASH ington. The Huskies finally snap ped out of the daze the Minnesota defeat had put them in by going To work in the second half of the Washington State game last week to win. % to IL. The two forgotten” members of the Coast conference, Montana and Idaho, meet outside COMPETE ton in Gonzaga and Utah State respectively.

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)

Stanford 58% to win. Oregon State won as Elo’s underdog.

Stanford leads 59–⁠28–⁠3 in 90 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Oregon State 62, Stanford 17
2022Oregon State 28, Stanford 27
2021Oregon State 35, Stanford 14
2020Stanford 27, Oregon State 24
2019Stanford 31, Oregon State 28
2018Stanford 48, Oregon State 17

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