California at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 8, 1949

No. 10 California beat Wisconsin 35–⁠20. It was their fourth meeting; after it, California led the series 3–⁠1.

Away10California10–⁠1 in 1949
35
HomeWisconsin5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1949
20

FinalHigh 83°F, low 65°FAttendance 44,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: California Serves Bowl Notice BY Whipping Wisconsin, $3.50

    Evening star, October 9, 1949, page 47

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    California Serves Bowl Notice BY Whipping Wisconsin, $3.50 underdog Wisconsin came right back-and smartly. | Lisle (Blackie) Blackburn, a ! 180-pounder who runs the daShes on the track team, capped a &C. yard drive from the kickoff with four-yard sprint outside right tackle. He missed the point, but two minutes later skirted wide ! for AZ yards and the lead touch down. But that was all. Monachino, on a pitchout from Celeri, circled left end from the IL and the Bears never were headed again. | Celeri, who completed only four of II passes all day, hit Brunk on a 66-yard play for one third period touchdown and added the clincher himself on perfectly executed keeper play from eight yards out Erb tossed % yards to Begovich / in the end zone for the final tally after little Gene Evans had scooted Sc yards with a Celeri punt fol the Badgers last scoring. The California running attack master minded by Celeri, rolled ur 247 yards, and the Bears added 1876 more overhead. Wisconsin went for 142 on the ground and 103 in the air on nine completions in Is attempts. California – ia T-3E | Wisconsin 13 O 0 80 / California scoring: Touchdowns-Mon- | schino (2}. Begovich, Ceeri. Brunk. Points after touchdown-Cullom (5l. / Wisconsin scoring: Touchdowns-BlackhnIrrn l9l Evans pnintx After tnuc down

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Three Teams In Race For Bid To Rose Bowl Game

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 10, 1949, page 8 (results column)

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    Three Teams In Race For Bid To Rose Bowl Game (By The ASSOcldleu fIeSS’ College football in the far west reaches the midseason mark this week end with three teams still undefeated in the big champion ship chase. The Coast conference title fight, with the Rose Bowl nomination as the poSt-Season prize, now looms among Southern California, Cal ifornia, and the University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles. These three have unmarred league rec ordS. One of the favorites may tum- ble out of contention Saturday. Southern California’s Trojans and California’S Bears come to grips at Berkeley. The U. c. L. A. Bruins play out side the circuit this week, meeting Santa Clara. Odds makers rate the U. s. C. California battle as strictly toss up. Unbeaten California returns from a sortie to the midwest where it outscored Wisconsin, 35- 20. The Bears put together AT and 65 yard touchdown drives in the third period to build up a substan- tial lead. Southern California played a speedy and. favored Ohio State club to 1913 tie. Stanford and Washington, beat en in their initial conference starts last week, will try to beat their way back into contenders’ roles Saturday at Seattle. Stanford bowed 7–⁠74 to U. C. l.. A. and fa- vored Washington came out on the short end of a 7–⁠3 score with Oregon State. The speedy Stanford squad fum- bled a punt to pave the way for the first U. C. l.. A. touchdown from 13 yards out and the Bruins turned a pass interception into n ther counter. Statistically, Stanford outdowned the Uclans 22 to 1. Oregon, after walloping Wash ington State, 21–⁠0, entertains Colo rado. It figures to beat the Rocky Montain entry. Washington State

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 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

California leads 5–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the two 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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