California at Oregon State

Saturday, October 1, 1949

California beat Oregon State 41–⁠0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, California led the series 9–⁠6.

AwayCalifornia10–⁠1 in 1949
41
HomeOregon State7–⁠3 in 1949
0

FinalHigh 70°F, low 46°FAttendance 18,885

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 2, 1949, page 37

    Read the text

    PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. L. CALIFORNIA; Bears doomed prom inently into the Rose Bowl run ming by crushing Oregon State in convincing manner today, 41–⁠0. Coach Lynn “Pappy” Waldorf’s Californians, co-champion OF, the Coast Conference, came up. with the strongest ground attack they have displayed this year. They ran up six touchdowns with regulars playing only half the time. The Rose Bowl veterans set the pace by taking the opening kick off and marching In seven plays to a touchdown, as 1885 impressed fans watched at Multnomah Sta dium. They turned in two other touch down drives, unfurled one long

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Up5ET5 IN FOOTBALL

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 3, 1949, page 6 (results column)

    Read the text

    Up5ET5 IN FOOTBALL SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3-iRt- Far Western football took a drub- ping on the important intersectional fronts last weekend Meanwhile the Coast Conference championship race saw one of the top choices sidetracked, at least temporarily, in humping upset. Stanford, Washington and Idaho ran second best against cross country opposition. Notre Dame, with fullback Emil Sitko furnishing the drive, bowled over Washington 27–⁠7. By the same count another visiting powerhouse, Michigan, in- flicted the first defeat of the sea- son on Stanford. Idaho’s trip to the Southwest proved a sad experience with Texas racking up @ ee-7 win. The conference scramoles defi- nitely tatbed the University of California at Los Angeles as solid contender, perhaps the team to Eeat for the title. Any lingering doubts were dispelled by the man. ner in which U.C.L-A. measured defending co-champion Oregon. The score was 35–⁠27 and the win ners led all the way. oregon drew up to within point of new Coach Henry “RadTSanders’ hard run ming squad in the Friday night clash, but U.C.L.A. was the boss in the clutch. Stanford’s youngish club held the nations mythical champion of last season, Michigan, to a TO lead at halftime but fell to pieces before a three touchdown rally in the third quarter. Washington was with Notre Dame for the first two periods but succumbed to the Irish spurt in the second half. The preseason conference choice, Southern California, will be called upon to uphold coast honors this WCCk dS dilloU otiOAiS OAiAO ocoIS’ Southern California hardly had to get out of second gear to take State apart 35–⁠7 last Saturday. Oregon, its hopes considerably shattered ty U.C.L.A. is expected to Eounce back with a bang in it’s meeting with Washington State Saturday. Washington likewise will try to make it’s conference debut a substantial winning effort in the game with oregon States battered team. California, after grinding out a 41–⁠0 victory over Oregon State, travels to Madison for its encoun- ter with Wisconsin. Montana takes on Colorado ARM Saturday after beating Utah State, 16–⁠13 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)

California 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

California leads 40–⁠37 in 77 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025California 34, Oregon State 15
2024California 44, Oregon State 7
2023Oregon State 52, California 40
2022Oregon State 38, California 10
2021California 39, Oregon State 25
2020Oregon State 31, California 27

Around this game

California

Oregon State