Washington at Oregon

Saturday, October 26, 1963

Washington beat Oregon 26–⁠19. It was their 57th meeting; after it, Washington led the series 25–⁠16–⁠4 in the games on file.

AwayWashington6–⁠5 in 1963
26
HomeOregon8–⁠3 in 1963
19

FinalHigh 60°F, low 33°FAttendance 35,690

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story

    The Nome nugget, October 28, 1963, page 7 (results column)

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    another fine job for Purdue. And the Boilermakers blanked Iowa 14 to 0. Minnesota edged Michigan 6 to } and held on to the little brown jug for the fourth straight year. Seventh-ranked Oklah om trampled Kansas State 34 to 9 for it’s fourth victory of the year. A 50-yard run with an inter- cepted pass gave Missouri the only touchdown of the game and a ‘ 70 0 victory over Iowa State. Another brilliant running job by Gale Savers led Kansas to a 41 to 2 rout over Oklahoma State. In the Southeastern Conference Georgia edged Kentucky IF to IA. A pair of touchdown plunges by Don Schwab led Louisiana State to a IA to 0 victory over Florida The Atlantic Coast Conference had major upset with North Caro- lima State beating Duke 21 to ‘. Five different Clemson backs had a chance to score, on short line plunges as the Tigers whipped Virginia 35 to 0. In an upset in the Southwest Conference, it was Texas Tech 13, Southern Methodist 6. In the East, the longest winning streak in major college football came to an end when Harvard up- set Dartmouth IT to 13. Dartmouth had won Is straight games. Underdog Stanford defeated Notre Dame, “A to IA, before 55 ,OOO fans, plus a nationwide television audience. The University of Washington came from behind in a hard hitting g game with independent Oregon to capture a 26 to 19 football victory before a sell-out crowd at Port land.

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)

Oregon 67% to win. Washington pulled the upset.

Officially, Washington leads 63–⁠50–⁠5; as played, 56–⁠46–⁠4 in the 106 games on file; the official count covers all 118 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Oregon 26, Washington 14
2024Oregon 49, Washington 21
2023Washington 34, Oregon 31Pac-12 Championship
2023Washington 36, Oregon 33
2022Washington 37, Oregon 34
2021Oregon 26, Washington 16

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