Oregon State at Stanford

Saturday, November 14, 1942

Stanford beat Oregon State 49–⁠13. It was their 17th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 13–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayOregon State4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1942
13
HomeStanford6–⁠4 in 1942
49

FinalHigh 60°F, low 46°FAttendance 4,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Stanford Game RemindfuI OF Its Rose Bowl DAYS Routs Oregon State

    Evening star, November 15, 1942, page 38

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    Stanford Game RemindfuI OF Its Rose Bowl DAYS Routs Oregon State PALO ALTO, Calf. Nov. A. Stanford’s Indians called on T formation hocus pocus, remindful of the championship days of 1910 today to truck and trounce Oregon State, 49 to l3, in Pacific Coast Conference football game that left nothing to the imagination. 1t was one of the biggest scores piled up thus far this season in a major conference The small crowd of about 5000 saw the kind of performance that brought Stanford a league title and the Rose Bowl championship two years ago. The game started and finished with a thrill. Oregon State scored “a minutes after the kickoff on a 39-yard canter by Joe Day, fullback Stanford came back to tie the count on swift march of “a yards. From then on it was a show, with the Indians taking the leading roles They scored three touchdowns with IN 7ia minutes after switching sides for the second quarter: produced two more inside of “a minutes after the third period opened and finished with 69-yard gallop as the contest went into the last 15-minute frame

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)

Stanford 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Stanford leads 59–⁠28–⁠3 in 90 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Oregon State 62, Stanford 17
2022Oregon State 28, Stanford 27
2021Oregon State 35, Stanford 14
2020Stanford 27, Oregon State 24
2019Stanford 31, Oregon State 28
2018Stanford 48, Oregon State 17

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