UCLA at Stanford
Saturday, October 18, 1947 Share
No. 19 UCLA beat Stanford 39–6. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 11–6–1.
FinalHigh 71°F, low 47°FAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1947, page 3 (results column)
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NEW YORK. Oct. 21 IP- A zen major college football teams Ii own all-victorious records to- y, but several O fthem will have do some fancy stepping next Aturday to keep from joining Hght others which were tumbled om the ranks of the uubeaten ad united during the past week 4d. #sueh previously undefeated eleY- s as Minnesota, Vanderbilt, Yale, aryland, William and Mary, arquette, Boston College and tuhlenberg dropped out’of the all- ctorious class and now can con- nitrate on returning the com iment to such other hopefuls as lay cross their paths. Perfect Records Among the topflight aggrega- . .pns, those whose perfect records rvived the weekend firing include ichigan, Notre Dame, Texas. Cali mia, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvan- Penn State, Southern Method k, Baylor, Wake Forest, Virginia hd West Virginia Probably the toughest ohore inn ediately ahead for any of this lect group is that faced by the .olden Bears of California. who Engle with Southern California s hbeaten but one-tied Trojaus at .erkeley Saturday in enc of the sp games of the day California opened it’s bid for the hcific Coast conference crown by |ipping Washington State. 2l-6, for s fifth straight triumph Saturday Ia development considerably less .lpressive than the 43–6 haymakar .hich Southern Cal landed on regon state. 3-Ccrnered Scrap UCLA, presently involved in a ee-cornered scrap for the Coast tls and Rase Bowl honors, steps It of conference play to meet the lvasion Of Southern Methodist, |hich kept its slate clean by Ianking Rice, 14–0, while UCLA las trampling Stanford, 39–6. Texas, which downed Arkansas. -6. to clear it’s first Southwest inference hurdle, goes after its xth win of the year against Rice , Austin and Baylor invades Tex
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 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every UCLA–Stanford gameUCLA leads 49–43–3 in 95 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.
| 2023 | UCLA 42, Stanford 7 | |
| 2022 | UCLA 38, Stanford 13 | |
| 2021 | UCLA 35, Stanford 24 | |
| 2020 | Stanford 48, UCLA 47 | |
| 2019 | UCLA 34, Stanford 16 | |
| 2018 | Stanford 49, UCLA 42 |
Around this game
UCLA
- Next gamevs. SMUOct. 25, 1947
- SeasonUCLA in 1947
- ProgramUCLA history and records
Stanford
- Next gameat WashingtonOct. 25, 1947
- SeasonStanford in 1947
- ProgramStanford history and records

