UCLA at Stanford

Saturday, October 26, 1957

Stanford beat No. 15 UCLA 20–⁠6. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Stanford led the series 15–⁠12–⁠1.

Away15UCLA8–⁠2 in 1957
6
HomeStanford6–⁠4 in 1957
20

FinalHigh 69°F, low 58°FAttendance 46,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Stanford Trips 2O-6, as Stars

    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.

UCLA leads 49–⁠43–⁠3 in 95 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023UCLA 42, Stanford 7
2022UCLA 38, Stanford 13
2021UCLA 35, Stanford 24
2020Stanford 48, UCLA 47
2019UCLA 34, Stanford 16
2018Stanford 49, UCLA 42

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