Washington at UCLA

Saturday, November 21, 1942

No. 18 UCLA beat Washington 14–⁠10. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Washington led the series 6–⁠3.

AwayWashington4–⁠3–⁠3 in 1942
10
Home18UCLA7–⁠4 in 1942
14

FinalHigh 73°F, low 38°FAttendance 35,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: U(LA EDGES OUT Hu5kIES. 14-10 WIN Washington loses Game oFirst Place Team by Bad Center Pass eu

    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.

UCLA leads 42–⁠34–⁠2 in 78 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Washington 48, UCLA 14
2024Washington 31, UCLA 19
2022UCLA 40, Washington 32
2021UCLA 24, Washington 17
2018Washington 31, UCLA 24
2017Washington 44, UCLA 23

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