UCLA at Washington
Saturday, October 4, 1952 Share
No. 14 UCLA beat Washington 32–7. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Washington led the series 8–7–1.
FinalHigh 75°F, low 54°FAttendance 43,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 5, 1952, page 69
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Washington S Passes Boomerang as UCLA Turns in 32–7 Victory SEATTLE, Oct. UCLA swarmed to a 32-to-7 triumph over the University Of Washing ton today that stamped UCLA as top contender for the Pacific Coast Conference title. The blue-clad Californiafs turned Washington’s vaunted passing attack into a boomerang intercepting five tosses by Quarter back Don Heinrich who hadn’t lost a toss by interceptioh previously this season. Three Of the interruptions either scored or set up touchdowns. The Bruins romped to one of their five scores on straight ground power and took the aerial route to another, showing Wash ington’s Huskies and the home town crowd of $4,000 everything but mercy. Not until the final quarter could the locals get their sputtering machine hitting on all cylinders. Heinrich mixed his plays n1asterfully to pilot the Huskies 80 yards In II downs to avoid a whitewash. Terry DELAY. 170-pound sophomore linebacker. spearheaded the UCLA defense that piled up every other Washington threat. Center Dom Moomaw. also backing the line. joinned with DELAY in plug Iging the few holes Washington could carve in the rugged UCLA front wall. In spite Of the great defensive show, Heinrich cracked the conference record by completing 81 passes out of the AZ he threw.
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)
UCLA 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every UCLA–Washington gameUCLA leads 42–34–2 in 78 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.
| 2025 | Washington 48, UCLA 14 | |
| 2024 | Washington 31, UCLA 19 | |
| 2022 | UCLA 40, Washington 32 | |
| 2021 | UCLA 24, Washington 17 | |
| 2018 | Washington 31, UCLA 24 | |
| 2017 | Washington 44, UCLA 23 |
Around this game
UCLA
- Next gamevs. RiceOct. 11, 1952
- SeasonUCLA in 1952
- ProgramUCLA history and records
Washington
- Next gameat IllinoisOct. 11, 1952
- SeasonWashington in 1952
- ProgramWashington history and records

