Northwestern at Chicago

Saturday, October 25, 1919

Chicago beat Northwestern 41–⁠0. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 21–⁠7–⁠3.

AwayNorthwestern2–⁠5 in 1919
0
HomeChicago5–⁠2 in 1919
41

FinalHigh 71°F, low 50°F, 0.01 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Omaha daily bee's story: Northwestern Ragged Work Costly and CHICAGO Wins

    Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], October 26, 1919, page 31

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    Northwestern Ragged Work Costly and CHICAGO Wins Chicago, Oct. 25.-Chicago established itself in the Western confer ence championship race by burying the crippled Northwestern team under Al to 0 score. The game drew $4,000 spectators. The Northwestern eleven, weak ened through the loss of players in Jured in the game with Wisconsin a week ago, was outclassed and did not threaten to score until near the close of the game. The fumblng and ragged team work of North western was costly. .... Graham, the Chicago quarterback, played spectacular game, scoring a field goal and a 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)

Chicago 61% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Chicago leads 26–⁠8–⁠3 in 37 meetings, counting the six 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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