Illinois at Iowa
Saturday, November 2, 1918 Share
Illinois beat Iowa 19–0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 5–3.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 31°F
In the newspapers

Arizona republican, Arizona, November 3, 1918, page 8
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each in the remaining two quarters. Blocki, formerly of the University of Chicago scrambled through the entire Northwestern team for a 39-yard run Shat resulted in the final touch down. NEW YORK, Nov. 2-Columbia de- feated Amherst 21 to ‘ today. Colum- bias superior weight won. Columbia’s three touchdowns were earned by straight line smashing and few spectacular end runs. Amherst’s score came at the end of the second period when she gained the ball on a tumble on Columbia’s 25-yard line and pushed it over: Amherst was again near scoring at the end of the lst period. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. D. Within a few minutes after the open ing of the game between the Dart mouth and Syracuse S. A. T. c. teams on Pratt field this afternoon, the out come was merely a question of how much the Syracuse score would exceed that of the Hanover team, and after. the AS minutes of play the result was, Syracuse 34, Dartmouth 6. Virginia Polytechnic institute 13, Washington and Lee o. IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 2.-Perfectly executed forward passes and machine like team work centered around a back field of stars, returned Illinois victor over Iowa here today 19 to 0. Illinois, in each scoring instance, car ried the ball to within a few yards of the line of line plunges and forward passes, then shot man around the end for the touchdown. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-The foot ball team from Camp Zachary Taylor defeated Indiana university here today ‘ to 3. All the scoring was done in the second period, the other periods be- | ing played largely near the center of the field. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. D. The Swarthmore college football team which took Lafayette’s place on the University of Pennsylvania schedule today won an easy victory from the red and blue by a score of 20 to 12 Pennsylvania rallied toward the end ot the game and scored two touchdowns in the last five minutes of play. LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 2.-After 24 Stdl Ol SuCNCSSlNt utlGdiSs I football team this afternoon on Stuart Field, defeated the University of Chi cago squad to 5. In the winning score Markley caught a long forward pass and then made { spectacular run of 20 yards. Tackled thrice, he left his headgear in tho hands of the last man as a souvenir. DES MONIES, Nov. 2-Grinnel Qowa) college football eleven swampeC Drake university here today II to o. CLEVELAND, Nov 2.-The Cleve !. land naval reserve football team out classed the Detroit naval reserves to 1 day, winning S3 to 0. ST. PAUL, Nov 2.-Minnesota de feated the light but fast football clever representing Carleton and St Olaf col leges at Northfield, Minn., 59 to her today. At East Lansing. Mich.-Michiga. Agricultural college 16, Kalamazoo Normal ‘. At Bethlehem, Pa-Philadelphi; Navy yard 14. Lehigh g. At Princeton, N. J-Princeton In formals ‘, Princeton Aviators O. At Newark, Del.-Delaware colleg 0. Pennsylvania Military college 0. At St. Louis-Washington universit, 26, Rolla School fo Mines o.
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)
Iowa 54% to win. Illinois won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Illinois–Iowa gameIllinois leads 39–38–2 in 79 meetings, counting the 71 since this game.
| 2023 | Iowa 15, Illinois 13 | |
| 2022 | Illinois 9, Iowa 6 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 33, Illinois 23 | |
| 2020 | Iowa 35, Illinois 21 | |
| 2019 | Iowa 19, Illinois 10 | |
| 2018 | Iowa 63, Illinois 0 |
Around this game
Illinois
- Next gameat WisconsinNov. 9, 1918
- SeasonIllinois in 1918
- ProgramIllinois history and records
Iowa
- Next gamevs. MinnesotaNov. 9, 1918
- SeasonIowa in 1918
- ProgramIowa history and records

