UCLA at Stanford
Saturday, October 26, 1957 Share
Stanford beat No. 15 UCLA 20–6. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 15–12–1.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 58°FAttendance 46,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1957, page 65
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Stanford Trips 2O-6, as Stars PALO ALTO, Calf, oct. % tP) Jack Douglas engineered one long scoring march and threw two touchdown passes today as Stanford kept alive its Rose Bowl hopes with a 20–6 victory over favored UCLA before a crowd of 10000. Douglas key runs on the option play kept a 68-yard, second quarter scoring drive in motion. Twice in the second half he found End Joel Freis with scoring passes Of So and 2 yards. Fullback Chuck Shea score the Indians first touchdown from 4 yards out and Halfback Al Harrington added conversions after the first two TALES. Douglas hit 10 Of IL pass at tempts for 1913 yards. He ran six times for IS yards. UCLA. hit hard by the fiu this week. looked sluggish and nothing like the club that upset OREGON State, 26–7. last week. The Bruins scored In the third period on an ’8-yard pass. from Halfback Don Long to Halfbaek Phil Parslow. STAN ford End Gary Van Calder and Halfback Jeri McMillin blocked Don Duncan’s conversion at tempt. Five times the Bruins drove deep into Stanford territory. only to meet rugged defenses. Twice they were held for yard age. twice they fumbled and once they lost the ball on an intercepted pass. The victory gave Stanford q 2–1 conference record and set up its meeting with Oregon here next week as q vital Rose Bowl test. UcLA --- q Q o.
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 56% to win. Stanford pulled the upset.
The series
Every UCLA–Stanford gameUCLA leads 49–43–3 in 95 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.
| 2023 | UCLA 42, Stanford 7 | |
| 2022 | UCLA 38, Stanford 13 | |
| 2021 | UCLA 35, Stanford 24 | |
| 2020 | Stanford 48, UCLA 47 | |
| 2019 | UCLA 34, Stanford 16 | |
| 2018 | Stanford 49, UCLA 42 |
Around this game
UCLA
- Next gamevs. CaliforniaNov. 2, 1957
- SeasonUCLA in 1957
- ProgramUCLA history and records
Stanford
- Next gamevs. OregonNov. 2, 1957
- SeasonStanford in 1957
- ProgramStanford history and records

