Washington at Oregon

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 14, 1951, page 50

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  .Huskies Win , 63–⁠6, For Worst Oregon Defeat in 81 Years PORTLAND, Greg. Oct. 49, Washington’s Huskies, burning from last weeks upset at the hands of Southern California, slashed through Oregon today to win, 63–⁠6. inf1icting the worst defeat in the 81 years the two schools have been playing football. A crowd of 30,414. predominantly Oregan fans, suffered as the Huskies charged to repeated Itouchdowns, brushing aside Oregon tacklers. Fullback Hugh McElhenny led the rout. ripping off long runs until Coach Howie Odell pulled him to the bench early in the second half. McElhenny went back there after only to kick the conversions, and he booted nine in a row, tying Coast Conference record established by the late Stan Nc Guire of Oregan State two years ago.

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.

Officially, Washington leads 63–⁠50–⁠5; as played, 56–⁠46–⁠4 in the 106 games on file; the official count covers all 118 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.