California at USC

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1948, page 1

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  BowI-Bound Bears Turn Back Fighting Trojans by13–⁠7 LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30.-Cali. fornia’s unbeaten Golden Bears turned back the challenge of a sur prisingly stubborn Southern Cali fornia eleven today, rolling on to. ward the Rose Bowl with 13-to-7 victory. Playing before q turnout OF 80, 1890 fans, CALIFORNIA; hard-hitting eleven- outclassed but never outfought the Trojans in 60 minutes of good football. Jack Jensen, living up to his all American fullback candidacy, led the Bears on scoring drives of IS and SO yards in the first and third quarters. He was the outstanding ball carrier of the day, anC combined his work with terrific blocking and better than fair punt ing. In the first, California Quarter. back Dick Erickson fooled the Troys with pass from the Is to Reserve Back Paul Keckley on the two Jensen lugged it over. Again in the third Jensen and Jack Swaner carried the load up. field. Jensen went across from the seven. In the final minutes, U. S. C.’s Jimmy Powers passed twice for % yards. A pass interference was called on Cal on the nine. Jack Kirby advanced to the one foot mark and on the next play went over.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 1, 1948, page 6

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  ROSE BOWL SCRAMBLE CONTINUES California, Oregon Now Neck and Neck for Honors May Mean PIaYoff SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1.-lR- Footballs dizzy scramble out this way for the Rose Bowl continued apace today. As the race turned into the Mo- vember stretch run, California and Oregon were neck and neck. They may hit the wire that way A play off, unprecedented in Coast Con- ference history, would then be the logical solution. The usual selective method of voting may cause hard feelings this year in case of an Oregon California deadlock at the finish. The California Bears cleared their toughest hurdle last week, the 13–⁠7 win over Southern California Tro-

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  Roanoke Rapids daily herald, October 31, 1948, page 1 (results column)

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  Tar Heels, Irish, Michigan Move Along in Grid Battles ers, 40 to 7. California, its sights set on tn, Rose Bowl, won a cherished 13 to 7 victory over Southern California. Penn and Penn State had relatively easy times. The Quakers crushed Washington and Lee, 40 to 7, while Penn State kept its two-year undefeated skein going with a 80 to l3 conquest of Colgate. Northwestern became the mid vests No. l Nose Bowl candidate with a rugged 81 to 7 verdict over Ohio State. Doak Walker went 81 yards for one touchdown, scored an other himself, passed for a third and converted all three as Southern Methodist moved out in front CT the Southwest Conference race with 81 to 6 score over vaunted Texas. Harry Stuhldreher, Wisconsin coach, and his eleven were greeted with “Yea, Harry sign at the start of the second half of. the T 2dgers battle with Iowa at Iowa City. The team then had a 13 to 0 lead. But the sign was gone at the end OF the fray. Iowa won, 10 to 13. Minnesota came from behind to defeat Indiana, 80 to Z For the third straight week Columbia went down in the final minutes. This time Cornell got late tallies for a 20 to IS decision. Dartmouth showed unexpected power in battering Yale, Al to IA, and Harvard took a step on the comeback trail with q 20 to 13 verdict over Holy Gross

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.

Officially, USC leads 72–⁠32–⁠6; as played, 72–⁠31–⁠5 in the 108 games on file; the official count covers all 112 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.