Chicago at Northwestern
Saturday, November 16, 1918 Share
Northwestern beat Chicago 21–6. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 20–7–3.
FinalHigh 60°F, low 52°F, 0.34 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Birmingham age-herald, November 17, 1918, page 11
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Northwestern Wins From Chicago Team Chicago, November 16-Northwestern trounced Chicago, 21 to 6, today. Chi cago’s only score came in the last period when. after two penalties for North western Elton went over. The kick failed Northwestern backs smashed through the Maroon defense and with series of forward passes and line drives Under hill crossed the goal line twice and Payton, an outstanding star of the game, went over once. Cigrand kicked all three goals from touchdown.
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)
Northwestern 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Chicago–Northwestern gameChicago leads 26–8–3 in 37 meetings, counting the seven since this game.
| 1926 | Northwestern 38, Chicago 7 | |
| 1925 | Chicago 6, Northwestern 0 | |
| 1924 | Chicago 3, Northwestern 0 | |
| 1923 | Chicago 13, Northwestern 0 | |
| 1922 | Chicago 15, Northwestern 7 | |
| 1921 | Chicago 41, Northwestern 0 |
Around this game
Chicago
- Next gamevs. Chicago YMCANov. 19, 1918
- SeasonChicago in 1918
- ProgramChicago history and records
Northwestern
- Next gameat IowaNov. 23, 1918
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1918
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records
