Washington at UCLA
Saturday, November 21, 1942 Share
No. 18 UCLA beat Washington 14–10. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Washington led the series 6–3.
FinalHigh 73°F, low 38°FAttendance 35,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, November 23, 1942, page 5
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U(LA EDGES OUT Hu5kIES. 14–10 WIN Washington loses Game oFirst Place Team by Bad Center Pass eu LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23,-Univer- sity of California at Los Angeles snatched victory from the embattled crew of the University of Washing ton Huskies in their football game last Saturday in the last minute of play The Uclans recovered a widely bouncing bad pass from Washington center Walt Harrison to emerge with the decision, IA to 10, keeping the UCLA team in the race for the coast title. Harrisons wild snapback eluded Bob Erickson from the one-yard mark, and rolled to the ten where Milt Smith, Bruin end, swarmed on it to kill Washington’s gold n chance for victory
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)
UCLA 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Washington–UCLA gameUCLA leads 42–34–2 in 78 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.
| 2025 | Washington 48, UCLA 14 | |
| 2024 | Washington 31, UCLA 19 | |
| 2022 | UCLA 40, Washington 32 | |
| 2021 | UCLA 24, Washington 17 | |
| 2018 | Washington 31, UCLA 24 | |
| 2017 | Washington 44, UCLA 23 |
Around this game
Washington
- Next gamevs. Washington StateNov. 28, 1942
- SeasonWashington in 1942
- ProgramWashington history and records
UCLA
- Next gamevs. IdahoDec. 5, 1942
- SeasonUCLA in 1942
- ProgramUCLA history and records

