California at UCLA

Saturday, November 1, 1941

California beat UCLA 27–⁠7. It was their ninth meeting; after it, California led the series 6–⁠2–⁠1 as played.

AwayCalifornia4–⁠5 in 1941
27
HomeUCLA5–⁠5–⁠1 in 1941
7

FinalHigh 71°F, low 47°FAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Still. INDIAN BOWL.

    Imperial Valley press, November 3, 1941, page 2 (results column)

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    Still. INDIAN BOWL. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3. oUP) With three games to go, StanfordS Rose Bowl football champions today were again making plans for a New Years day call at Pasadena. The Indians top the league with three conference wins, one loss and two outside victories. The rest OF the league is a scramble with only oregon State as a solid contender. The Beavers have lost two confer ence games but they beat Stanford and their schedule includes nine conference games. Every other team has lost th”ee games, inside and out Stanford must still beat use, WSC and California WSC has just knocked over the two strong Oregon teams and may be problem. The California; Stanford big game is one of those traditional affairs in which the dope book is suspended. Stanford looked impressive Sat urday in beating Santa Clara, 27–⁠7, battling the BroncoS with long gain ers and solid drives on a wet field. II was the worst Santa Clara defeat since Coach Buck Shaw took charge in 1885. Oregon, the top team few weeks ago, was upset again when Wash ington State beat the WebtootS, 1870. The Cougars have been beaten ! twice by one-point margins and their wins over both Oregon teams makes them the conference giant killers. California, recovering from a dis NAL start, rolled against UCLA and walloped the Bruins, 27–⁠7. Halfback Al Dorian ran amok for three touch downs in the second period. Oregon State laced Idaho 33-O and Washington overpoWered Mon tana 2l-0 for conference victories use took the weekend off. Stanford meets use next week and is favored to win. oregon State plays UCLA, Washington plays Cal ! ifornia, WSC plays Idaho, Oregon plays Santa Clara and Montana meets North Dakota.

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)

UCLA 56% to win. California won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, UCLA leads 59–⁠34–⁠1; as played, 59–⁠35–⁠1 in 95 meetings, counting the 86 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026UCLA 45, California 24
2023California 33, UCLA 7
2022UCLA 35, California 28
2021UCLA 42, California 14
2020UCLA 34, California 10
2019California 28, UCLA 18

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