UCLA at Washington State
Saturday, October 22, 1949 Share
UCLA beat Washington State 27–20. It was their 12th meeting; after it, UCLA led the series 7–5.
FinalHigh 53°F, low 36°FAttendance 21,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, October 24, 1949, page 3
Read the text
W5C ALMOST DOES IT-BUT LOSE 27–20 TO UClA INVADERS PULLMAN, Wash, Oct 24-iR- Washington State College bowed 27–20 to UCLA’s rose-smelling Bruins Saturday, but there were few unhappy alumni in the Cougar homecoming crowd of approxi- mately 20,500 fans. For the Cougars came close to upsetting the vaunted invaders, taking the lead twice in the ball game before falling victim to a 30- yard end-around play that set up the winning touchdown. WSC went ahead 14–0 in the first quarter.
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)
Washington State 52% to win. UCLA won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every UCLA–Washington State gameUCLA leads 42–20–1 in 63 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.
Around this game
UCLA
- Next gamevs. CaliforniaOct. 29, 1949
- SeasonUCLA in 1949
- ProgramUCLA history and records
Washington State
- Next gameat Oregon StateOct. 29, 1949
- SeasonWashington State in 1949
- ProgramWashington State history and records