Chicago at Northwestern

Saturday, November 16, 1918

Northwestern beat Chicago 21–⁠6. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 20–⁠7–⁠3.

AwayChicago4–⁠6–⁠1 in 1918
6
HomeNorthwestern2–⁠2–⁠1 in 1918
21

FinalHigh 60°F, low 52°F, 0.34 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story: Northwestern Wins From Chicago Team

    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.

Chicago leads 26–⁠8–⁠3 in 37 meetings, counting the seven since this game.

Recent meetings
1926Northwestern 38, Chicago 7
1925Chicago 6, Northwestern 0
1924Chicago 3, Northwestern 0
1923Chicago 13, Northwestern 0
1922Chicago 15, Northwestern 7
1921Chicago 41, Northwestern 0

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