Santa Clara at California
Saturday, September 22, 1951 Share
California beat Santa Clara 34–0. It was their 21st meeting; after it, California led the series 16–5.
FinalHigh 65°F, low 54°FAttendance 44,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, September 28, 1951, page 6 (results column)
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Football pitkings NEW YORK. Sept. 28-tR-Push- ing those hot baseball pennant races aside for a moment to pick the winners in this weekend’s football fracaseS. California over Penn: The Quak- CTS supposedly are either the best or second best in the east but you can’t overlook what California did to Santa Clara last week. The Bears trounced the Broncs, 34 to 0. Notre Dame over Indiana: Indi- ana is loaded but the Irish don’t make practice of losing their open ing games. Tennessee over Mississippi State Tennessee is rated the country’s best villanova over Army: The Army remnants lack a defense. Yale over Navy: Bob Spears, Yale fullback and captain. loves to run over people. Washington over Minnesota :: Coaches Odell of Washington and Fesler of Minnesota, are the closest of friends but only Odell will be smiling after the game. Hugh Me Elhenny to be the star. Kentucky over Mississippi; Too much Parilli. Ohio State over Southern Meth odist: Even the coach of SMU says his team will lose by three touch downs. Alabama over Louisiana State. Michigan State over Michigan: Michigan State defeated Oregon State last Saturday but it really opens both it’s season and offense against the Wolverines. Maryland over Washington and Lee. Texas over Purdue. Oklahoma over William and Mary. Finishing the others in hurry: Tonight: Detroit over Houston. West Vir- ginia over Thurman, Wichita over Utah State. Saturday: West: Oregon State over Utah, Oregon over Arizona, San Francisco over Idaho, Santa Clara over Wash ington State, Southern California to defeat both Camp Pendleton and San Diego Navy, Stanford over San Jose. Wyoming over Denver. East: Bucknell over Muhlenberg, Colgate over Buffalo, Cornell over Syracuse, Duke over Pittsburgh, Fordham over Dartmouth, Holy Cross over Harvard, Penn State over Boston University, Princeton over New York, Rutgers over La fayette, Temple over Brown. South: Arkansas over Tempe State. George Tech over Florida, Miami over Tulane, North Carolina over Georgia, South Carolina over The Citadel, Vanderbilt over Au- burn, Virginia Military over Rich mond, Virginia over George Wash ington. Wake Forest over North Ca rolina State. Midwest: Drake over Bradley, Illinois over UCLA, Iowa over Kan sas State, Kansas over Iowa State, Missouri over Oklahoma A. and M,
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 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Santa Clara–California gameCalifornia leads 17–5 in 22 meetings, counting the one since this game.
Around this game
Santa Clara
- Next gameat Washington StateSept. 29, 1951
- SeasonSanta Clara in 1951
- ProgramSanta Clara history and records
California
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaSept. 29, 1951
- SeasonCalifornia in 1951
- ProgramCalifornia history and records
