Stanford at Washington
Saturday, October 15, 1949 Share
Stanford beat Washington 40–0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 14–8–3.
FinalHigh 60°F, low 48°F, 0.29 in. of rainAttendance 33,500
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 17, 1949, page 3 (results column)
Read the text
FOOTBALL SCORES Final scores of football games played over the weekend are as fol- lows: Stanford 40; Washington 0. Washington State 35; Idaho 13. Oregon State 63; Montana IA. Oregon 42; Colorado IA. College of Idaho 33; Eastern Ore gon College 25. Lewis & Clark 20; Linfield 2. Pacific University 33; Whitman 27. Eastern Washington 27; Whit worth 20. Pacific Lutheran 25; St. Martins 20 Western Washington 21; British Columbia 6. Southern Oregon College 55; Ore gon Tech (Klamath Falls) IA. College of Pacific 75; Portland University 20. Puget Sound Jayvees 2; Fort Lawton 0. Washington State Frosh 5l; Mon- tana Frosh 0. Maine 12; Connecticut 12. Amherst 19; Colby 6. l Washington est. Louis) 12; West ern Michigan 0. Minnesota 27 Ohio State O. Michigan State 42; William Mary 13. Dartmouth 27; Colgate IS. Duquesne 40, Holy Cross IA. Army 54; Harvard IA. North Carolina 28; Wake Forest IA. Penn 27; Columbia ‘. Duke IA; North Carolina State 13 Cornell 48; Yale IA. Iowa State IS; Kansas State 18. Notre Dame 46; Tulane T. Wisconsin AS; Navy 13. Iowa 35; Indiana g. Missouri 27 Illinois 20. Franklin and Marshall IA Car negie Tech IA. l Western Maryland 39; Washing. ton College (Md) 6. Coast Guard 21; Kingspoint IA. Williams 33; Bowdoin o. Lehigh 33; Gettysburg 20 Virginia 27; Washington and Le, 7. Princeton 27; Brown IA. Nebraska 2; Penn State g. Massachusetts 32; Rhode Islant 19 Pittsburgh 35; Miami (OhiO 26 Georgia Tech 35; Auburn 2l. Northwestern 21; Michigan 20. Alabama T; Tennessee 2. Syracuse 21; Rutgers g. Fordham 33; Scranton 13. Cincinnati 19; Mississippi State ( Virginia Military IA; Richmond C Wyoming 27; Utah State 0. George Washington 24; Virgini Polytechnic IA. Texas 27; Arkansas IA. Oklahoma 48; Kansas 26. Texas Christian 28; Texas Aggie 6.
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.
On the newsreel
- STANFORD SINKS WASHINGTONThe Huskies get no quarter on their home gridiron, as the Indians ride roughshod to a 40 to nothing victory
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Washington 52% to win. Stanford won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Stanford–Washington gameWashington leads 46–43–4 in 93 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.
| 2023 | Washington 42, Stanford 33 | |
| 2022 | Washington 40, Stanford 22 | |
| 2021 | Washington 20, Stanford 13 | |
| 2020 | Stanford 31, Washington 26 | |
| 2019 | Stanford 23, Washington 13 | |
| 2018 | Washington 27, Stanford 23 |
Around this game
Stanford
- Next gamevs. Oregon StateOct. 22, 1949
- SeasonStanford in 1949
- ProgramStanford history and records
Washington
- Next gameat CaliforniaOct. 22, 1949
- SeasonWashington in 1949
- ProgramWashington history and records