Northwestern at Iowa

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  The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, November 22, 1926, page 6

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  NORTHWESTERN BEATS IOWA IN TOUGH BATTLE Game at Iowa City Proved to lSc Seasons Hardest Fight For Purple Iowa City, Ia., Noy.22.- Up North Westerns brilliant football team wrcstlcd a l., to 6 victory Saturday from Iowa and brought the Wildcats through the conference season unbeaten and sharing championship honors with Michigan. But the game which was account Cd an easy finish for the Purple prov cd To be its hardest Big Ten contest Of tn” season for Iowa. playing in spircd football, threatened repeated ~ to tie the score and dim North Westerns glory. The Wildcats start cd out vigorously and scored in the first period, when Lewis crossed the goal after down field march by the Northwestern backs, Baker add ing the extra point by drop kick Iowa barred passing attack u match the touchdown in the second period. After kutsch had passed t. Shelley for II yards to put the bal in midfield. he tossed the ball to Rice who ran 30 yards through clean field for Il marker. The Hawkcycs failed to tic the score, however, when Hogan. who went in for kutsch, missed the drop kick for point, and Northwestern went further ahead with another touchdown a few minutes later in the quarter when Gustafson skirted right end For 10 yards after series OF plungcs and end runs by himself Lewis and Baker. That was the last of the scoring but not the last Of the excitement for, in the second half, Iowa opened up passing attack which was sue ccssful enough to jeopardizc the Wildcat roal several times.

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 21, 1926, page 1 (results column)

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  important Foot Ball Scores of Yesterday Quantico Marines, 27: Fort Ben. nings, Z. Gallaudet, 10; Blue Ridge. 8. Georgetown, 80; Fordham. o. Washington and Lee, 8; Maryland, o. Yale, ~: Harvard, z. Navy, IS; Loyola, 13. Brown. 40; New Hampshire State, II. Lafayette, 35; Lehigh, o. Army. 21; Ursinus. IS. - Carnegie Tech, 26; West Virginia, o. Boston University, 8: Holy Cross. 0. South Carolina, 20; North Carolina State, IA. Furman, Z; The Citadel, o. Centre. Z; Kentucky. o. Virginia, 81; Randolph Macon, o. Notre Dame, 21; Drake, o. Nebraska, Is; N. Y. University, I. Michigan, z: Minnesota. s. Northwestern, 13: Iowa, 6. Ohio State, Z: Illinois, 6. Wisconsin. II; Chicago. Z. Purdue, a.; Indiana, IL. Missouri. is: Kansas. o. Stanford. Al; California. 8.

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Iowa leads 55–⁠28–⁠3 in 86 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.