Illinois at Wisconsin

Saturday, November 9, 1918

Illinois beat Wisconsin 22–⁠0. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 5–⁠3–⁠2.

AwayIllinois5–⁠2 in 1918
22
HomeWisconsin3–⁠3 in 1918
0

FinalHigh 44°F, low 35°FAttendance 7,000

In the newspapers

  • The The sun's story: ILLINOIS BEATS WISCONSIN.

    The sun, New York [N.Y.], November 10, 1918, page 17

    Read the text

    ILLINOIS BEATS WISCONSIN. MADISON, Wis, Nov 9.-Thc University OF Illinois eleven defeated the Uni versity OF Wisconsin football team, 90 to 0, to-day. Illinois outplayed tho Bad gers in every department OF the game and used puzsliys end shift formation.

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)

Wisconsin 57% to win. Illinois won as Elo’s underdog.

Wisconsin leads 46–⁠38–⁠7 in 91 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Wisconsin 27, Illinois 10
2023Wisconsin 25, Illinois 21
2022Illinois 34, Wisconsin 10
2021Wisconsin 24, Illinois 0
2020Wisconsin 45, Illinois 7
2019Illinois 24, Wisconsin 23

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