Battle of the Palouse

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The Battle of the Palouse refers to an athletic rivalry between the Vandals of the University of Idaho and Cougars of Washington State University. The two land-grant universities are less than eight miles (13 km) apart on the rural Palouse; Idaho's campus in Moscow is nearly on the Idaho–Washington border, and Washington State's campus is directly west in Pullman, linked by Washington State Route 270 and the Bill Chipman Palouse Trail. The two schools' most prominent rivalry was in football, but in later years it has shifted to men's basketball.

Football

Battle of the Palouse
Sport Football
First meeting November 17, 1894
130 years ago
WSU 10, Idaho 0
Latest meeting September 21, 2013
WSU 42, Idaho 0
Next meeting September 17, 2016
in Pullman
Statistics
Meetings total 90
All-time series WSU leads 71–18–3
Longest win streak WSU, 21 (1928–1949)
Longest unbeaten streak WSU, 27 (1926–1953)
Current win streak WSU, 8 (2001–present)

Series history

The first game was played 130 years ago in November 1894 and resulted in a win for Washington State. The game in 1898 was not played because Idaho had an ineligible ringer from Lapwai, F.J. McFarland, a recent All-American from Carlisle.[1][2][3] The Vandals' first-ever forward pass was attempted against the Cougars in 1907: it was completed for a touchdown from a drop-kick formation in the fourth quarter and led to a 5–4 victory.[4]

Washington State has dominated the local rivalry, holding a 71–16–3 (.806) lead. The record since 1926 is even more dominant, with a 56–5–2 (.905) advantage for the Cougars. The longest winning streak for Idaho was three games (1923–25), and has only five victories since that three-peat (1954, 1964, 1965, 1999, & 2000) and two ties (1927, 1950) to offset the 56 losses.

The games were skipped in 1969 and 1971, unfortunate for Idaho as the 1971 Vandals posted one of the best records (8–3) in school history, while WSU was 4–7. The rivalry became increasingly one-sided as WSU dominated in the 1970s (except for 1974) and the original series ended, following the 1978 game.[5] From 1979 to 1997, the game was played just twice (1982, 1989) until the 10-year renewal from 1998–2007. Since their last wins in 1999 and 2000, Idaho has been physically outmatched in most of the seven games; the game has only been played once since 2007, in 2013.

As two schools are in close proximity, from 1938 to 1968 there was a tradition called The Loser's Walk, where during the week following the game students of the losing school would walk from their own campus to the winners' campus, then receive rides back home from the winning side. This has frequently been misreported as students walking back to their own campus immediately following the game. In 1954, the walk made national news when about 2,000 students from Washington State College made the trek east from Pullman to Moscow after the Cougars lost to Idaho for the first time in 29 years.[6][7][8][9]

In a span of less than five months from November 1969 to April 1970, both schools' aged wooden stadiums (Idaho's Neale Stadium and WSU's Rogers Field) burned down due to suspected arson. The WSU–Idaho game in 1970 was dubbed the Displaced Bowl, which was held in Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane on September 19. The Cougars won the game (their only win that season), as well as the next ten against the Vandals.[10] The 1970 game was the first in the rivalry played on AstroTurf, which was new to Joe Albi that season.

In 1978 the NCAA split Division I football in two: I-A (now FBS) and I-AA (now FCS). Washington State was in Division I-A as part of the Pac-10 Conference and Idaho downgraded to I-AA as part of the Big Sky Conference, whose other football members moved up from Division II. In the late 1970s, I-A football programs were allowed 50% more scholarships and twice as many assistant coaches as I-AA teams.[5] During the years they were in different divisions, the schools met only twice (1982 in Spokane and 1989 in Pullman). In 1996, Idaho moved back up to Division I-A in the Big West Conference, and Idaho and WSU rekindled their century-old rivalry. Since the rivalry was reinstated in 1998, every game has been played at Martin Stadium in Pullman, except for the matchup in 2003, which was played at Seattle's Seahawks Stadium. The game played on the Idaho side of the border was in 1966, a come-from-behind 14–7 Cougar victory on a very muddy field to prevent a Vandal three-peat.[11][12]

Future of rivalry

After ten years of the renewed rivalry, Vandal head coach Robb Akey, previously WSU's defensive coordinator, said in 2008 that he preferred the game not be played every year, instead saying he would prefer it as a "once-in-a-while thing."[13] Only one game was played during Akey's tenure, in his first season in 2007, and he was fired in October 2012.[14] The meeting in 2013 on September 21 was a one-year revival,[15] but the future of the series under current Vandal head coach Paul Petrino is unclear. The next game is tentatively scheduled for 2016 in Pullman, on September 17.

Game results

Idaho victories Washington State victories
# Date Location Winner Score
1 1894 Moscow, ID Idaho 22–0
2 1894 Pullman, WA Idaho 12–0
3 1894 Moscow, ID Washington State 10–0
4 1895 Pullman, WA Washington State 10–4
5 1899 Pullman, WA Washington State 11–0
6 1901 Moscow, ID Idaho 5–0
7 1902 Pullman, WA Washington State 17–0
8 1903 Moscow, ID Idaho 32–0
9 1904 Pullman, WA Idaho 5–0
10 1905 Moscow, ID Idaho 5–0
11 1906 Pullman, WA Washington State 10–0
12 1907 Moscow, ID Idaho 5–4
13 1908 Pullman, WA Tie 4–4
14 1909 Spokane, WA Washington State 18–0
15 1910 Pullman, WA Idaho 9–5
16 1911 Moscow, ID Washington State 17–0
17 1912 Pullman, WA Idaho 13–0
18 1913 Moscow, ID Idaho 3–0
19 1914 Pullman, WA Washington State 3–0
20 1915 Moscow, ID Washington State 41–0
21 1916 Pullman, WA Washington State 31–0
22 1917 Moscow, ID Washington State 19–0
23 1919 Pullman, WA Washington State 37–0
24 1920 Moscow, ID Washington State 14–7
25 1921 Pullman, WA Washington State 20–3
26 1922 Moscow, ID Washington State 18–9
27 1923 Pullman, WA Idaho 14–0
28 1924 Moscow, ID Idaho 19–3
29 1925 Pullman, WA Idaho 7–6
30 1926 Moscow, ID Washington State 6–0
31 1927 Pullman, WA Tie 7–7
# Date Location Winner Score
32 1928 Moscow, ID Washington State 26–0
33 1929 Pullman, WA Washington State 41–7
34 1930 Moscow, ID Washington State 33–7
35 1931 Pullman, WA Washington State 9–8
36 1932 Pullman, WA Washington State 12–0
37 1933 Moscow, ID Washington State 14–6
38 1934 Pullman, WA Washington State 19–0
39 1935 Moscow, ID Washington State 6–0
40 1936 Moscow, ID Washington State 14–0
41 1937 Pullman, WA Washington State 13–0
42 1938 Moscow, ID Washington State 12–0
43 1939 Pullman, WA Washington State 21–13
44 1940 Moscow, ID Washington State 26–0
45 1941 Pullman, WA Washington State 26–0
46 1942 Moscow, ID Washington State 7–0
47 1945 Moscow, ID Washington State 43–12
48 1945 Moscow, ID Washington State 21–0
49 1946 Pullman, WA Washington State 32–0
50 1947 Moscow, ID Washington State 7–0
51 1948 Pullman, WA Washington State 19–14
52 1949 Moscow, IDY Washington State 25–13
53 1950 Pullman, WA Tie 7–7
54 1951 Moscow, ID Washington State 9–6
55 1952 Pullman, WA Washington State 36–6
56 1953 Moscow, ID Washington State 30–13
57 1954 Pullman, WA Idaho 10–0
58 1955 Moscow, ID Washington State 9–0
59 1956 Moscow, ID Washington State 33–19
60 1957 Pullman, WA Washington State 21–13
61 1958 Moscow, ID Washington State 8–0
62 1959 Pullman, WA Washington State 27–5
# Date Location Winner Score
63 1960 Moscow, ID Washington State 18–7
64 1961 Pullman, WA Washington State 34–0
65 1962 Moscow, ID Washington State 22–14
66 1963 Pullman, WA Washington State 14–10
67 1964 Moscow, ID Idaho 28–13
68 1965 Pullman, WA Idaho 17–13
69 1966 Moscow, ID Washington State 14–7
70 1967 Pullman, WA Washington State 52–14
71 1968 Spokane, WA Washington State 14–7
72 1970 Spokane, WA Washington State 44–16
73 1972 Pullman, WA Washington State 35–14
74 1973 Pullman, WA Washington State 51–24
75 1974 Pullman, WA Washington State 17–10
76 1975 Pullman, WA Washington State 84–27
77 1976 Pullman, WA Washington State 45–6
78 1977 Pullman, WA Washington State 45–17
79 1978 Pullman, WA Washington State 28–0
80 1982 Spokane, WA Washington State 34–14
81 1989 Pullman, WA Washington State 41–7
82 1998 Pullman, WA Washington State 24–16
83 1999 Pullman, WA Idaho 28–17
84 2000 Pullman, WA Idaho 38–34
85 2001 Pullman, WA Washington State 36–7
86 2002 Pullman, WA Washington State 49–14
87 2003 Seattle, WA Washington State 25–0
88 2004 Pullman, WA Washington State 49–8
89 2005 Pullman, WA Washington State 38–26
90 2006 Pullman, WA Washington State 56–10
91 2007 Pullman, WA Washington State 45–28
92 2013 Pullman, WA Washington State 42–0
Series: Washington State leads 71–18–3

Men's basketball

Battle of the Palouse
Sport Men's basketball
First meeting January 13, 1906
Washington State 28, Idaho 11
Latest meeting December 3, 2014
Idaho 77, Washington State 71
Next meeting December 10, 2015
Statistics
Meetings total 270
All-time series Washington State leads, 162–108
Largest victory Washington State, 53–10 (March 17, 1914)
Longest win streak Washington State, 12 (1915–1917)
Current win streak Idaho, 1 (2014–present)

Although the Battle of the Palouse in football waned by the 1980s, Idaho and Washington State men's basketball teams have played each other annually since 1906 in a series that continues to this day and is dubbed the Battle of the Palouse.[16][17][18] From the 1921–22 to 1958–59 seasons, the two schools both competed in the Pacific Coast Conference.[19][20]

Washington State has a 162–108 lead in the series as of December 3, 2014; in the latest game in the series, Idaho won 77–71 in Idaho's first win over Washington State since 2002.[16][21]

The rivalry in basketball reached its peak in the early 1980s, under head coaches Don Monson and George Raveling. The game in early December 1982 at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow established a new attendance record of 11,000 for an Idaho home game; the Vandals won it overtime for their third straight win over the Cougars and 37th consecutive win at home.[22][23][24][25] Idaho was coming off a 27–3 season in 1982 in which it was ranked in the top ten and reached the Sweet Sixteen (and Monson was named Kodak coach of the year). The Cougars went on to finish second in the Pac-10 in the 1983 regular season,[26] and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament, falling to #1 seed Virginia in Boise to finish at 26–6.[27] Both coaches left at the end of the season; Monson for Oregon and Raveling for Iowa.

Other sports

Idaho–Washington State games are also dubbed "Battle of the Palouse" in women's basketball,[28] women's volleyball,[29] and women's soccer.[30]

Washington State leads the women's basketball series, last played in the 2008–09 season, 26–13 and won the most recent game 53–50 over Idaho.[31]

In women's volleyball, Washington State leads the series 41–21 as of 2015.[32][33] In recent years, the series has been played as part of invitational tournaments hosted by the schools:[33][34]

  • 2008: Idaho Classic, Moscow (Idaho won 3–0)
  • 2009: Nike Cougar Challenge, Pullman (Washington State won 3–2)
  • 2010: Nike Cougar Invitational, Pullman (Idaho won 3–0)
  • 2012: Idaho Nike Invitational, Moscow (Idaho won 3–2)
  • 2013: Cougar Invitational, Pullman (Washington State won 3–0)
  • 2014: Cougar Challenge, Pullman (Washington State won 3–1)

See also

References

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