California at Washington

Saturday, October 24, 1942

California beat Washington 19–⁠6. It was their 26th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 12–⁠12–⁠2.

AwayCalifornia5–⁠5 in 1942
19
HomeWashington4–⁠3–⁠3 in 1942
6

FinalHigh 60°F, low 42°FAttendance 31,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: CALIFORNIA TR0MpS ON UW HU5kIE5 Washington Takes Tumble From Undefeafed Team Rank

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 26, 1942, page 5

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    CALIFORNIA TR0MpS ON UW HU5kIE5 Washington Takes Tumble From Undefeafed Team Rank SEATTLE. Oct. 26.-The Univer- sity of California lived up to its preseason predictions for the first time last Saturday afternoon and knocked the University of Wash ington out of the undefeated class 19 to 6. The Golden Bears put on a daz- zling display of running and pass ing before the Seattle homecoming crowd of 3l,0Oo, surging back for three second half touchdowns after the Huskies had capitalized on a 1irst period break to score the first touchdown.

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)

Washington 71% to win. California pulled the upset.

Washington leads 55–⁠41–⁠3 in 99 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Washington 59, California 32
2022Washington 28, California 21
2021Washington 31, California 24
2019California 20, Washington 19
2018California 12, Washington 10
2017Washington 38, California 7

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