Wisconsin at California

Saturday, October 9, 1948

No. 9 California beat Wisconsin 40–⁠14. It was their third meeting; after it, California led the series 2–⁠1.

AwayWisconsin2–⁠7 in 1948
14
Home9California10–⁠1 in 1948
40

FinalHigh 62°F, low 52°FAttendance 66,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 11, 1948, page 2 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The following are .inai scores of important football g a m es played over the weekend. USC 2; Rice 0. Washington 27; UCLA 6. Oregon 15; Idaho 8. California 40; Wisconsin 14. Santa Clara 27; Stanford l4. Oregon State 32; Portland 6. Washington State 48; Montana O.. Idaho State 13; wyoming 40. Nebraska 6; Colorado 19. Montana State 12; North Da- kota U. 6. Utah 30; Brigham Young 0. College of Pacific 41; San Diego State IA. Southern Methodist IA Missouri 20. Michigan 40: Purdue O. Oklahoma 20; Texas IA. Amherst 27; Bowdoin l9. George Washington 20; Virginia 12. South Carolina 0; Tulane IA. Vanderbilt T; Mississippi 20. Iowa 14; Ohio State 2. Princeton 2; Penn 29. Harvard 6; Cornell 40. Washington VPI 0; Maryland 23. New Hampshire 27; Maine 6. Depauw 6; Rochester 13. Rhode Island State 6; Brown B. Holy Cross 6; Dartmouth 19. Navy T; Duke 28. Columbia 34; Yale 20. Michigan State 2; Notre Dame 26. Kentucky 12; Georgia Tech. 23. Chattanooga 0; Tennessee 26. Minnesota 16; Northwestern l9. Army 26; Illinois 2l. Bates T. Tufts 28. North Carolina 28; Wake Forest T. Marietta 21; Carnegie Tech ‘. Rutgers 34; Temple 20 Kansas 20; Iowa State ‘. West Virginia 6; Pitt l6. Hawaii University 55; Redlands O. Eastern Washington 31 Western Washington ‘. Pacific Lutheran T; Central Wash ington 0. DOC WALKER Be sure and tune in and listen to Dec Walker tonight at 9:30 o’clock over KINY. 12 1t

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)

California 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

California leads 5–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1990California 28, Wisconsin 12
1989California 20, Wisconsin 14
1949California 35, Wisconsin 20
1948California 40, Wisconsin 14
1947California 48, Wisconsin 7
1946Wisconsin 28, California 7

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