UCLA at California

Saturday, October 17, 1942

UCLA beat California 21–⁠0. It was their 10th meeting; after it, California led the series 6–⁠3–⁠1 as played.

AwayUCLA7–⁠4 in 1942
21
HomeCalifornia5–⁠5 in 1942
0

FinalHigh 81°F, low 53°FAttendance 35,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 19, 1942, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The following are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon: University of Washington 35; Montana 0. Santa Clara T; Oregon State 0. UCLA 21; California 0. Idaho [; Stanford 54. Washington State 12; use 26. Tennessee o; Alabama 8. Wyoming IA; Denver IT. New Mexico O.; Colorado 12. Utah University 34; Utah State North Dakota University 19; South Dakota State 8. DePauw 19; University of Louis- vile 6. ea Milligan T; Centre 6. Maryland O.; VIII 29. Carnegie Tech 19; Grove City G. Army 34; Columbia G. Northwestern Is; Michigan 34. Drake 6; Iowa State 29. Iowa Naval 0; Notre Dame 28. Texas AT; Arkansas 6, Texas Christian T; A.6SM. 2. Mississippi State 33; Vanderbilt O. Minnesota l5; Nebraska 2. Oklahoma 25; Kansas 0. Georgia Tech 33; Davidson 0. Missouri 46; Kansas State 9. Greeley State 6; Colorado Mines T. Duke 34; Colgate o. Princeton 6; Pennsylvania 6, tie. Wooster 0; Case IS. Marquette 28; Michigan State 2. Indiana 19; Pitt ‘. Vermont 12; Union 26. North Carolina Preflight 6; Bos- ton College 2. Purdue T; Ohio State 26. West Virginia IA; Fordham 23. Bucknell T; Rutgers g. Yale 6; Navy 13. Penn State 0; Cornell 0, tie. Dartmouth IA; Harvard 2. Bates 12; Northeastern 0. Rochester O; Amherst 6. Trinity 27; Worcester Tech 6. Williams 19; Bowdoin 0. Middlebury 6; Colby 26 Syracuse 19; Holy Cross 0. Ohio Akron TT; Ohio Wesleyan 19. Washington and Jefferson 6: Nickinson A. Lafayette o; Brown T. Tulane 0; Georgia 40. Duquesne 6; North Carolina 13 Connecticut 26; Maine ‘. Wisconsin 13; Great Lakes 7. Illinois 12; Iowa 2. Empire Classiheds Payl

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)

California 64% to win. UCLA won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, UCLA leads 59–⁠34–⁠1; as played, 59–⁠35–⁠1 in 95 meetings, counting the 85 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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