Georgia vs. UCLA
Friday, January 1, 1943, Rose Bowl Share
No. 5 Georgia beat No. 11 UCLA 9–0. It was their first meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 1–0.
FinalAttendance 90,000Referee: Orian Landreth (Pacific Coast; split crew: Pacific Coast, SEC)
MVP Charley Trippi (Georgia)Wikipedia
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, January 2, 1943, page 3
Read the text
FOOTBALL SCORES The following are final scores OF various bowl games played yesterday afternoon: Georgia 9. UCLA 0. East 13; West r. Boston 81: Alabama 81. Georgia Tech Z, Texas IA. Tulsa 7; Tennessee IA. Second Bomber Air Force 10; Hardin Simmons T. Florida 4 q T IA, Southern Uni versity 6. This was the Flower Bowl game played between negro aggregations at Jacksonville.
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)
Georgia 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Georgia–UCLA gameGeorgia leads 2–0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1983 | Georgia 19, UCLA 8 | |
| 1942 | Georgia 9, UCLA 0 | Rose Bowl |
Around this game
Georgia
- Next gamevs. PresbyterianSept. 17, 1943
- SeasonGeorgia in 1942
- ProgramGeorgia history and records
UCLA
- Next gamevs. USCSept. 25, 1943
- SeasonUCLA in 1942
- ProgramUCLA history and records