Santa Clara at Oregon State
Saturday, October 17, 1942 Share
No. 15 Santa Clara beat Oregon State 7–0. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 76°F, low 37°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 18, 1942, page 36
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Santa Clara Is Victor, 10, After Bad Kick By Oregon State Gaining Ball on Foes 48, Broneos Take Only Four Plays to Score PORTLAND. Greg, Oct. IL Santa Clara made anothe. successful raid inside the Pacific Coast Conference today and galloped off with the pelt of the leagues defending champion, Oregon State College. The score was TO. 1t was Santa Clara’s third win over a Coast Conference team and its fourth triumph without loss this year. The defeat was o. S. C.’s second, but did not affect the Beavers league position since Santa Clara is not a conference member. Only about 1000 saw the game as Portland continued Indifferent to college football in the Nation S first war year. In the past Port land frequently turned out crowds of $4,000 to $4,000. One of the Coasts great passing combina tions, Jesse Freitas to Allyn Beals, paid off for the visitors in the second period. Body Clements, Beaver punter, sliced bad kick out of bounds for only II yards on o. S. C.’s 48 tc set the stage for his teams misfortune. Freitas legged around right end for IA yards, then faded sharply and whipped a 20-yarder to the fleet Beals, who caught it on the lope and picked up 10 more before two Beavers unhorsed him on the 4 From there Freitas jabbed for { and Bill Prentice bolted into the money through guard. Al Santucci, whose punting was superb all after noon, converted from placement.
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)
Santa Clara 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Santa Clara–Oregon State gameSanta Clara leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Santa Clara
- Next gameat UCLAOct. 24, 1942
- SeasonSanta Clara in 1942
- ProgramSanta Clara history and records
Oregon State
- Next gamevs. Washington StateOct. 24, 1942
- SeasonOregon State in 1942
- ProgramOregon State history and records
