Iowa at Washington
Saturday, October 5, 1963 Share
Iowa beat Washington 17–7. It was their second meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–1.
FinalHigh 59°F, low 53°F, 0.24 in. of rainAttendance 55,200
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, October 11, 1963, page 7 (results column)
Read the text
Washington Squad Will try Saturday Face-Saver Oregon State, which hasn’t lost and Washington, which hasn’t won yet this season clash at Seattle on Saturday afternoon in a football game that could highlight the West menu despite the inequality in records. Washington proved a disappoint- ing surprise in dropping all three of it’s intersectional tests – to the Air Force 10–7, to Pittsburgh 13- 6, and to Iowa 17–7. UCLA opens the Coast grid course Friday night in playing host to Syracuse. On Saturday af- ternoon, Sou thern California battles at Notre Dame, Duke in- vades California, Idaho plays at Oregon, and San Jose at Wash ington State. Stanford tries regrouping its forces at Rice in a night game while Fresno State plays at win less University of the Pacific. Southern California’s Trojans came to life in the fourth quarter to beat Michigan State last week and Coach Johnny Mckay can only hope they’ll start earlier against the Irish of Notre Dame. Dukes defending Atlantic Coast Cosference champions are favored to hand California its third straight beating, while both Wash ington State and Oregon aren’t expected to have tough assign mentS.
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)
Washington 63% to win. Iowa won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Iowa–Washington gameIowa leads 5–3 in eight meetings, counting the six since this game.
| 2026 | Iowa 41, Washington 24 | |
| 2024 | Iowa 40, Washington 16 | |
| 1995 | Iowa 38, Washington 18 | Sun Bowl |
| 1990 | Washington 46, Iowa 34 | Rose Bowl |
| 1981 | Washington 28, Iowa 0 | Rose Bowl |
| 1964 | Iowa 28, Washington 18 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gamevs. IndianaOct. 12, 1963
- SeasonIowa in 1963
- ProgramIowa history and records
Washington
- Next gamevs. Oregon StateOct. 12, 1963
- SeasonWashington in 1963
- ProgramWashington history and records

