UCLA at California

Saturday, October 30, 1954

No. 3 UCLA beat California 27–⁠6. It was their 25th meeting; after it, California led the series 14–⁠10–⁠1 as played.

Away3UCLA9–⁠0 in 1954
27
HomeCalifornia5–⁠5 in 1954
6

FinalHigh 73°F, low 51°FAttendance 64,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: ViIIanueya Scores Twice, Engineers 7 More for Bruins

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 31, 1954, page 65

    Read the text

    ViIIanueya Scores Twice, Engineers 7 More for Bruins BERKELEY, Calf. Oct. 3d. Primo Villanueva. shifty left halfhack, raced to two touch downs and engineered two more to give the UCLA Bruins a 27–⁠6 victory over the California Bears today in their annual Coast Conference football clash. While $4,000 fans looked on, Villanueva galloped 40 yards and

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 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, UCLA leads 59–⁠34–⁠1; as played, 59–⁠35–⁠1 in 95 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026UCLA 45, California 24
2023California 33, UCLA 7
2022UCLA 35, California 28
2021UCLA 42, California 14
2020UCLA 34, California 10
2019California 28, UCLA 18

Around this game