Idaho at Oregon State
Saturday, September 18, 1948 Share
Oregon State beat Idaho 27–12. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Oregon State led the series 14–5.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 43°FAttendance 8,400
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, September 20, 1948, page 3 (results column)
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEW YORK, Sept. 2o-IR-Al- most everybody gets into the act this week m the toughest set of September football games in history. Ire traditional early season ‘‘breather” definitely is thing of the past when the first full weekend of action offers such att fractions as Navy–California, Pur- due -Notre-Dame and Texas–North Carolina. And there are many more. The season actually opened, piece meal fashion, last weekend. Villa nova showed surprising power in stopping Texas A. and M, 34-l4 at Philadelphia. Two otter Texas teams had better luck The Uni vers;ty of Texas Longhorns smoth- cred Louisiana State 330, and Tex as Christian edged Kansas, 14–13, in 90 degree heat at Lawrence. On the West Coast California poured it on Santa Clara, 41–19, and Oregon steamrollered Santa Bar bara, 55–7. UCLA tegan it’s Pacific Coast conference season with a 48–27 vic- tory over Washington State while Oregon State beat Idaho, 27–12. Stanford won it’s first game in two years, downing San Jose State with last quarter furry, 26–20
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)
Oregon State 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Idaho–Oregon State gameOregon State leads 34–7 in 41 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.
| 2021 | Oregon State 42, Idaho 0 | |
| 2006 | Oregon State 38, Idaho 0 | |
| 1995 | Oregon State 14, Idaho 7 | |
| 1985 | Oregon State 43, Idaho 28 | |
| 1984 | Idaho 41, Oregon State 22 | |
| 1966 | Oregon State 14, Idaho 7 |
Around this game
Idaho
- Next gameat UtahSept. 25, 1948
- SeasonIdaho in 1948
- ProgramIdaho history and records
Oregon State
- Next gameat USCSept. 24, 1948
- SeasonOregon State in 1948
- ProgramOregon State history and records

