Washington at USC
Saturday, November 3, 1962 Share
No. 3 USC beat No. 9 Washington 14–0. It was their 36th meeting; after it, USC led the series 21–12–3 as played.
FinalHigh 68°F, low 57°FAttendance 46,456
In the newspapers
Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1962, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
How Top 10 Fored = Here’s the way the Nations top 10 college football teams Jared in games yesterday: l. Northwestern 600 beat Indiana, 1921. 2. Alabama (7–0) beat Mississippi State, 300. 8. Southern California (6-O) beat Washington, 14–0. 4. Louisiana State (5-l-l) lost to Mississippi, 1877. Mississippi. 5. Texas gold beat South ern Methodist, 60. 8. Mississippi 600 beat LSU 1877. Z. Michigan State (4–2) lost to Minnesota, 28–7. 8. Arkansas (6-D beat Texas A&M, TIT. 9. Washington (4-1-2) lost Il Southern California, 14–0. 10. Auburn (5-D lost to Flor. ida, 1913.
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.
On the newsreel
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 14 - WASHINGTON 0The Southern Cal crowd at Los Angeles sees the Trojans get off to a fast start against unbeaten Washington and run circles around the outplayed Huskies.
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
USC 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Washington–USC gameOfficially, USC leads 52–32–4; as played, 53–32–4 in 89 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.
| 2026 | USC 25, Washington 21 | |
| 2024 | Washington 26, USC 21 | |
| 2023 | Washington 52, USC 42 | |
| 2019 | Washington 28, USC 14 | |
| 2016 | USC 26, Washington 13 | |
| 2015 | Washington 17, USC 12 |
Around this game
Washington
- Next gamevs. CaliforniaNov. 10, 1962
- SeasonWashington in 1962
- ProgramWashington history and records
USC
- Next gameat StanfordNov. 10, 1962
- SeasonUSC in 1962
- ProgramUSC history and records