Stanford at USC

Saturday, November 9, 1963

USC beat Stanford 25–⁠11. It was their 42nd meeting; after it, USC led the series 25–⁠14–⁠2 in the games on file.

AwayStanford3–⁠7 in 1963
11
HomeUSC7–⁠3 in 1963
25

FinalHigh 78°F, low 54°FAttendance 57,035

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Rally by Trojans Defeats Stanford

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1963, page 46

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    Rally by Trojans Defeats Stanford LOS ANGELES CAP).- Southern California rallied with II points in the final quarter today to defeat STAN ford in a game that was won and lost by fumbles, 25–⁠11. The heavily favored Trojans traile d moderated Stanford, lilo, at the half but came back to score an eight-point touch down in the third period and forged ahead with an automatic safety and two touchdowns in the last period. The Big Six Conference game was played before 57,035 in Memorial Coliseum and was the sixth straight victory over Stanford by the Troians. A punt fumbled by STAN ford’s Dick Ragsdale was recovered on the Stanford Is and led to the safety and soon after the winning touchdown. After the safety, Southern Gals Mike Garrett returned a Stanford punt A yards to the Indians 80. And a moment la ter Quarterback Craig Fertig passed for II yards to Willie Brown for the go-ahead touch down. Stanford struck for IL points, to UGH d own and a field goal-within three min utes in the second quarter, TAX ing advantage Of two Trojan fumbles. Fertig. filling in for the in

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)

USC 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, USC leads 65–⁠34–⁠3; as played, 66–⁠33–⁠3 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 103 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023USC 56, Stanford 10
2022USC 41, Stanford 28
2021Stanford 42, USC 28
2019USC 45, Stanford 20
2018Stanford 17, USC 3
2017USC 31, Stanford 28Pac-12 Championship Game

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