Washington State at California

Saturday, October 8, 1955

Washington State and California tied 20–⁠20. It was their 28th meeting; after it, California led the series 19–⁠6–⁠3.

AwayWashington State1–⁠7–⁠2 in 1955
20
HomeCalifornia2–⁠7–⁠1 in 1955
20

FinalHigh 52°F, low 44°F, 0.25 in. of rainAttendance 33,000

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press's story

    Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press, October 10, 1955, page 3 (results column)

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    TEAR WEST lUCLIA 38; OSC 0 Washington VI, use o Washington State 20 ] California 20 Colorado 13; Oregon 6 Michigan State 38 Stanford College of Pacific 20, Idaho 0 Puget Sound 20, West. Wash. Lewis & Clark AT, Linfield O Whitworth 21, Cent. Wash. 6 Lower Columbia ‘, Olympia 6 Pacific 13, Pacific Lutheran 0 l Willamette 10, Whitman 0 ! Everett 19, Centralia 0 1 Wenatchee 26, Yakima 13 ! MIDWEST l Michigan 26, Army ? Minnesota IS, Northwestern Wisconsin 9, Purdue 0 Iowa 20, Indiana 6 Miami (O) Al, Toledo 0 Ohio State 27, Illinois 12 Iowa State 7, Kansas 7 Texas A&M 27, Nebraska 0 Texas Tech 13, East Kent. 7 EAST Yale AS, Columbia IA Navy 21, Pittsburgh 0 Boston Col. 28 Villanova IA Brown ‘, Dartmouth Q Holy Cross IS, Colgate IA Cornell 20, Harvard 7 Princeton ‘, Pennsylvania 0 Delaware “A, LaFayette 6 Maine s, New Hampshire 6 Rutgers 21, Muhlenberg 0 Connecticut 18, Mass. 13 Rhode Island IS, Vermont 0 Carnegie Tech 26, Johns Hopkins 6 SOUTH Maryland 28 Wake Forest 7 West Virginia 47, VMI IA Tennessee IS. Chattanooga Q Duke 47, William & Mary 7 Georgia 28, North Carolina ‘ South Carolina 19, Thurman Q Mississippi State 14, Tulane Q Texas Christian 21, Alabama c Kentucky IA, Auburn IA Florida 28, George Washing. c Georgia Tech 6, Louisiana s Q Rice 21, Clemson 0 Mississippi 13, Vanderbilt 0 SOUTHWEST Oklahoma 20, Texas 0 Wichita IA, Oklahoma A&M ‘ Arkansas A&M 26, Wiley IA West Texas $ 20, Arizona 20 Baylor 25, Arkansas 20 ROCKIES Colorado ARM 14, Wyoming 13 Denver 61, Montana 13 Utah State IS, New Mexico Q Utah Al, Brigham Young g Montana State 39, Colorado College IA PRO FOOTBALL Chicago Cardinals 24, Washington 10 Los Angeles 17, Detroit 10 Pittsburgh 30, New York B Cleveland Al. Philadelphia 17 San Francisco 20, Chicago Bears 19.

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 72% to win.

California leads 49–⁠30–⁠5 in 84 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023California 42, Washington State 39
2022Washington State 28, California 9
2021Washington State 21, California 6
2019California 33, Washington State 20
2018Washington State 19, California 13
2017California 37, Washington State 3

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