California at Oregon State

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 4, 1942, page 38

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  Oregon State Downs California, 1873, in Last 10 Seconds CORVALLIS, Ore, Oct. 3.-Oregon States Rose Bowl and Pacific coast conference football champions defeated California, 1873 today on halfback Everett Smiths half-yard plunge to q touchdown in the last 10 seconds. Oregon State, then on the short end of an 8–⁠6 count from scoring in the first half, started it’s victory drive 6 minutes from the final gun. From their 27. the Beavers rolled up 5 first downs. Passes accounted for most of the yardage. They reached the California N16 with minutes to go. Smith pounded the line for yards and fullback Joe Day added 2 more. Then Smith faded, hurled a pass over the Bear left flank to righthalf Bill McInnis who grabbed it on the l as a half lf-dozen tacklers hit him. Day made a half-yard and then Smith burst over center for the winning touchdown. -.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 5, 1942, page 6 (results column)

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  FOOT BAIL @ 5a[3SW{5 IFS Nn The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Southern California 0; Univer- sity of Washington 0. Oregon 0; Washington State ‘, St. Mary’s Preflight IS; UCLA T. Santa Clara IA; Stanford 6. Oregon State 13; California 8. Fordham IA; Tennessee 40. Bernie Bierman’s Iowa Naval Seahawks ‘; Minnesota 6. Iowa State 0; Nebraska 26. Colorado 13; Missouri 26. Auburn 27; Tulane 13. Texas Tech 0; Texas A & M 19. Arkansas 6; Texas Christian 13. Mississippi State 6; Alabama 2l. Pittsburgh 20; Southern Metho- dist T. Miami T; Dartmouth 58. buChIltIl C I Cllli OVobC Ah. Lafayette 0; Army 14. Lehigh 6; Yaie 33. Texas 0; Northwestern 3. Great Lakes Naval Station 25; Iowa 0. Virginia 0; Navy 35. Colgate Is; Cornell 6. Penn IT; Harvard ‘. Indiana 21; Ohio State 32. Butler 0; Illinois 67. Michigan State o; Michigan 20. Rhode Island State 0; Brown 28. Furman T; Georgia 40. Maine 2; Columbia 34. Georgia Tech IS; Notre Dame 6. Williams 19; Princeton 2. South Carolina 6; North Carolina 18. Duke 2; Wake Forest 20.

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.

California leads 40–⁠37 in 77 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.