Beloit at Northwestern
Saturday, September 24, 1921 Share
Beloit beat Northwestern 7–0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Northwestern led the series 9–3–3.
FinalHigh 74°F, low 65°F, 0.17 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Great Falls tribune. (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, Montana, September 25, 1921, page 13
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Beloit College Wins Over Northwestern in Big Football Upset Evanston, H.. Sept, “a. - Fumbles and penalties brought one of the big gestupsets in the middlewest in recent years when Northwestern university’s eleven. a western conference team, was defeated to by Beloit college, looked upon previous to Saturday as hardly capable Of furnishing stiff practice for big ton football team. Beloit’s score came in the first period when Northwestern lost the ball on a tumble on its own yard line. Later, Palmer of Northwestern scored touch down, but his teeam was Off side and the play did not count. Four times Northwestern carried the ball to the one yard line, only to lose on fumbles or downs. Northwestern’s line was remarkably weak and the backs frequently were blocked by their own interference.

Bisbee daily review, Arizona, September 25, 1921, page 1 (results column)
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Football Results Harvard 10, Boston University 0. Yale rs, Bates 0. Harvard 16, Middlebury 0. Northwestern 0. Beloit 7. Indiana AZ, Franklin 0. At Hanover. n. H.-Darthmouth “a Norwich 8. AT Cleveland-Case ID, Hiram 0. At State College, Pa.-Penn State SO, Lebanon Valley 0. At Pittsburg-Carnegie Institute AZ Thiel College 0. At Easton, Pa.-LaFayette As. Muhl enburg 0. At delphia-University of | Pennsylvania SO, Delaware College O. At Syracuse-Syracuse 35, Hobart 0 At Providence-Brown 6. Rhode Is land State 0. At New Brunswick, N. Rutgers 80, Ursinus o. At Springfield, Mass.-Springfield 26, Amherst O. At Fairmont, w. ve--West Vir- GINA University 35. West Virginia Wesleyan 3. At Lancaster. Pa.-Franklin and Marshall 7, Albright O. At Hamilton. n. Y.-Colgate 7. st. Bonaventure z. At Beaver Falls, Pa.-Geseva 0. Pittsburg University 2S. AT New York City-Fordham %. Maine IA. Ae Cedar Rapids-Coe 13, State Teachers 6. At South Bend. Ind.-Notre Dame So, Kalamazoo 0. AT Charlottesville, Ind.-Wabash z Augustana 0. At st. Louis-St. Louis University Z. Cape Girardeau Missouri Normal O. At Reno-Nevada 81. Agnetian O. University of Washington and Jer. ferson ia, Bethony 0. At Berkeley, Cal.-Universfty OF California 81, st. Marys College o. AT Athens, Ohio University 40 Morris Harvey CIV. Va) 0. Georgia Tech AZ, Wake Forest 0. Virginia Military Institute 13, Roa noke 0. North Carolina A. and NJ. 20, Ran dolph Macon O. ! University OF Alabama “a, Howard IA.

The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram, Richmond, Ind., September 26, 1921, page 11 (results column)
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Football Results COLLEGES Indiana, Al; Franklin, 0. Wabash, Z; Augustana, O. Notre Dame, Sc; Kalamazoo, 0. Harvard, 16; Middlebury, 0. Harvard, 10: Boston, 0. Yale. IS; Bates, 0. Dartmouth, “a; Norwich, 8. Syracuse, IS; Hobart, O. Brown, 6; Rhode Island, 0. Penn State, So; Lebanon Valley, 0. Carnegie Institute, AZ; Thiel college, 0. Lafayette, IS; Muhlenberg, O. West Virginia university, So; Wesleyan, 3. Franklin and Marshall Z; Albright. 6. 7; ST. Bonaventure, I. Fordham, 25; Maine, IA. University of Pittsburg, %; Geneva, Washington and Jefferson, IA; Beth any, 0. Cincinnati, 20; Toledo, 0. Pennsylvania, S9E Delaware, 0. Springfield, 26; Amherst, 0. Rutgers, SO; Ursinus, 0. Ohio University, 40; Morris Harvey, Beloit. 7; Northwestern, 0. Georgia Tech, AZ; Wake Forest, 0. University of Virginia, IS; David son, 0. Auburn, Al; Georgia Military acadenvy, 8. Auburn, 4S; Sidney-Lenier, 0 (double-header). Virginia P. l., IA; Hampden-Sidney, 6. University of Tennessee, 81; Emory and Henry, 0. Virginia Military institute, 10; Roa. noke, O. North Carolina a. and NJ, 90; Ran, dolph Macon, 0. University of Alabama, 81; Howard IA. HIGH SCHOOLS Goshen. 20; Garrett, s. Rensselaer,, s; Morocco, 0. Emerson Gary, 10; Valparaiso, o Sheridan, IS: Cathedral, 0. Logansport, so; Bluffton, IA. Wabash, 90; Elwood, 10. Brazil, s; Wayeland, 0.
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 84% to win. Beloit pulled the upset.
The series
Every Beloit–Northwestern gameNorthwestern leads 11–3–3 in 17 meetings, counting the two since this game.
| 1923 | Northwestern 21, Beloit 6 | |
| 1922 | Northwestern 17, Beloit 0 | |
| 1921 | Beloit 7, Northwestern 0 | |
| 1908 | Northwestern 44, Beloit 4 | |
| 1905 | Northwestern 18, Beloit 2 | |
| 1904 | Northwestern 34, Beloit 0 |
Around this game
Beloit
- Next gameat NorthwesternOct. 7, 1922
- SeasonBeloit in 1921
- ProgramBeloit history and records
Northwestern
- Next gameat ChicagoOct. 1, 1921
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1921
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records
