Oregon at California

Saturday, November 14, 1953

Oregon and California tied 0–⁠0. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, California led the series 15–⁠7–⁠1.

AwayOregon4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1953
0
HomeCalifornia4–⁠4–⁠2 in 1953
0

FinalHigh 62°F, low 46°F, 0.02 in. of rainAttendance 24,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: UCLA Rolls Down Huskies 226 Oregon and California Tie 0( Dorow Pitches 4 Touchdowns, Boiling Edges Lejeune, 27-23

    Evening star, November 15, 1953, page 67

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    UCLA Rolls Down Huskies 226 Oregon and California Tie 0( Dorow Pitches 4 Touchdowns, Boiling Edges Lejeune, 27–⁠23 score. Two plays later Dorow passed 80 yards to Mel Groomes for a touchdown. In the third quarter, Fred James of Boiling ran 20 yards to Lejeune’s % to set up the third touchdown. On the next play, Dorow passed to. James for seven yards and he went the remain ing distance for the score. Lejeune Gets Long Runs. Lejeune, meanwhile, kept right in the game. They scored on the opening play from scrimmage when Frank Nastro broke through the line and ran SO yards for a touchdown. Ray Smith scored the second touch down from the % after the recovery of a tumble on Bolling’s 33 set up the play. The other touchdown was set up by an interception of a Dorow pass by Lee on his own IS. He ran to Bolling’s 81. Seven plays later, Lee threw to Bill Sammer for the touchdown. Bill Hostetler added two conversions and 20-yard field goal to Lejuene’s three touchdowns to give the Marines their tenn porary lead. BollinR 14 0 z 6–⁠2r Lejeune 1 13 3 0 7–⁠2: Boiling scoring: Touchdowns-Jones Groomes James, Logan. Conversions Lindsay, Reicherdt. Martin tpass from DorowD.

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 77% to win.

Oregon leads 42–⁠39–⁠1 in 82 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Oregon 63, California 19
2022Oregon 42, California 24
2021Oregon 24, California 17
2020California 21, Oregon 17
2019Oregon 17, California 7
2018Oregon 42, California 24

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