Oregon at UCLA

Friday, November 12, 1948

No. 15 Oregon beat UCLA 26–⁠7. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Oregon led the series 10–⁠9.

Away15Oregon9–⁠2 in 1948
26
HomeUCLA3–⁠7 in 1948
7

FinalHigh 81°F, low 44°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: OREGON WINS OVER UCLA BY 26 TO 7 SCORE

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 13, 1948, page 3

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    OREGON WINS OVER UCLA BY 26 TO 7 SCORE LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13.-tR-The University of Oregons football team headed home today, having shown in powerful manner that it’s Rose Bowl dreams are anything tut bub- bles in the air. Keeping abreast of unbeaten Cal ifornia in the drive to represent the Pacific Coast Conference at Pasa- denas New Years Day classic, the big, smooth running Oregon eleven kept its conference record intact by crushing fighting but outmatched UCLA Bruins last night, 26 to ‘ before 42,700 fans. The win was the Webfoots sixth in conference play. The team is keeping one eye ahead on their next foe, a major foe any year-Oregon State. The other eye is fastened on the Cali fornla Bears and their game today with Washington State. Oregon cashed in on one break, 3. tumble on the Bruin 23 They failed to cash in cn another tumble but that was the only mistake they made Norman van Brocklin, using his arm sparingly in favor of di- rect ng a murderous ground attack, set up the second touchdown with his aerial wizardry The next two Webfoot scores came on marches of 60 and 51 yards, with Sanders, Lew is and Company tearing off huge gains afoot.

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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

UCLA leads 41–⁠33 in 74 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026UCLA 17, Oregon 15
2024Oregon 34, UCLA 13
2022Oregon 45, UCLA 30
2021Oregon 34, UCLA 31
2020Oregon 38, UCLA 35
2018Oregon 42, UCLA 21

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