Oregon at USC

Saturday, November 14, 1942

USC beat Oregon 40–⁠0. It was their 12th meeting; after it, USC led the series 10–⁠1–⁠1 as played.

AwayOregon2–⁠6 in 1942
0
HomeUSC5–⁠5–⁠1 in 1942
40

FinalHigh 73°F, low 53°FAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Fast Southern California Finds Sluggish Oregon Easy 10 Trim, 400

    Evening star, November 15, 1942, page 38

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    Fast Southern California Finds Sluggish Oregon Easy 10 Trim, 400 oS inc ASSOCldteQ Press. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14.-Oregon, conqueror last week Of mighty UCLA, was a soft touch for Southern California today and the Trojans scored an impressive 40 to 0 VIC tory to move into second place in the Pacific Coast football standings A crowd of 10000 watched the Oregonians, slow of foot and badly outcharged in the line, go reeling under a rapier-like aerial and ground attack started by the elusive Mickey McCardle and finished by q group of second and third -stringers. The Trojans had powerful one two punch, Fullback Bob Musick pildriving the center of the Oregon line and the feather-foot McCardle keeping the jittery forwards of the Webfoots spread just enough to be highly vulnerable. Southern California made II first downs in the first half to Oregon’s S none in scoring five touchdowns and bottling up the visitors in their own territory when they had the ball. Oregon’s terrible Tommy” Roblin, a hard socking fullback, never got going.

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)

USC 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, USC leads 38–⁠24–⁠2; as played, 39–⁠24–⁠2 in 65 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Oregon 41, USC 27
2025Oregon 42, USC 27
2023Oregon 36, USC 27
2020Oregon 31, USC 24Pac-12 Championship Game
2019Oregon 56, USC 24
2016USC 45, Oregon 20

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