Montana State at Idaho

Saturday, November 6, 1948

Idaho beat Montana State 28–⁠12. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Idaho led the series 5–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayMontana State0–⁠4 in 1948
12
HomeIdaho3–⁠6 in 1948
28

FinalHigh 41°F, low 27°FAttendance 5,500

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: - q 80 &A 9s& Coast Football Is Ceiling Hot; California, Oregon Tied fIonors

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 8, 1948, page 3 (results column)

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    - q 80 &A 9s& Coast Football Is Ceiling Hot; California, Oregon Tied fIonors SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8.-Rstill running neck and neck, tied for top conference honors and equally ambitious to parade their football wares in the Rose Bowl, California and Oregon square off against far “ tough opposition this weekend. California outscored the University of California at Los Angeles Bruins 1918 last Saturday in rather unimpressive fashion. It’s followers look for m ore decisive winning result against visiting Washington State. The oregon Ducks may have a stiff one to sWmount Friday at Los Angeles, none other than the ~. c. L. A. Bruins VINO gave Cali fornia a solid, if losing battle last week. The Bruins piled up greater combined rushing and passing yard age than the Big Bears, undefeated either in or outside the league. Call fornias Rose Bowl rival, Oregon, edged past Washington 1877 last week but in winning retained perfeet conference record. OIegon’s lone loss this season was against the powerful Michigan eleven-. The Ducks league wins have been closer than Californ!a’s but at least their record is unblemished OIL their seasonal showings, Cal Hernia and Oregon may hit the finish line dead even. The vote OF the 10-member conference then will decide the Western Rose Bowl representative. Other league engagements this weekend viii bring together Wash ington and Southern California and Stanford against Montana. / The Southern California Trojans were idle last week and off past records will be favored to turn back Washington. Stanford returns from a Larruping at the hands OF Army, 43–⁠0, to take on the leagues weak sister, Montana The Montana Grizzlies, Laundering in their worst season in some time, lost to College of the Pacific, 1872, last week, their fourth setback in a row. University Of Idaho, winner over Montana State 28–⁠12 in its last out, takes on the scrappy University OF Portland club in non-league encounter Portland, incidentally, gave St. Mary’s Gaels stout go last week. holding the favored Gaels scoreless for three periods hefore losing 1910. Oregon State College also gees out side the conference this week, meet ing University of Utah which comes to Corvallis with 1913 decision over Colorado A & NJ, as its last effort: Oregon State played Washington State to a 1926 tie last Saturday. College of the Pacific, after its successful foray into Montana, plays University of San Francisco on the later’s field. US.F. ground out $50 victory over Loyola of Los Angeles last Friday. Another Friday night meeting will match San Jose State with the visiting San Diego state eleven. San Jose turned back Brig ham Young, 21–⁠6 last week.

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)

Idaho 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Tied 13–⁠13–⁠1 in 27 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Idaho 35, Montana State 34
2024Montana State 52, Idaho 19FCS Championship – Quarterfinals, CFP Quarterfinal
2024Montana State 38, Idaho 7
2023Idaho 24, Montana State 21
2021Montana State 20, Idaho 13
2018Montana State 24, Idaho 23

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