Indiana at Chicago

Saturday, October 12, 1929

Chicago beat Indiana 13–⁠7. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 18–⁠1.

AwayIndiana2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1929
7
HomeChicago7–⁠3 in 1929
13

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: CHICAGO WINS, 1877, ON INDIANA ERRORS BY the Associated Press.

    Evening star, October 13, 1929, page 77

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    CHICAGO WINS, 1877, ON INDIANA ERRORS BY the Associated Press. by tIlS ASSUCAuteu EEeSS CHICAGO, October 12-Flashing plenty Of power in the pinches and TAX ing advantage OF every break. A. A. Stages Maroons defeated Indiana here today, IS to 2, in the conference OPEN err A crowd of 10000 watched Pat Pages Hoosiers fail to achieve their second win in l9 starts against the Chicagoans. It was Chicagos first conference victory in two years. Both Chicago touchdowns were made after costly Indiana errors, the first after Ringwalt’s bad pass from center was responsible for fooled punt, the second after Ross tumble. In the final quarter, Indiana passed and plunged through the Maroons with Balay lead ing the attack and brought the ball To the Maroon 5-yard line. After the Stagg boys had held and taken the ball for kick, Kanne, Maroon halfback fumbled and Catterton recovered behind the line to give the men from Bloomington their only score. A pass over the goal line her defeated their only other scoring threat.

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 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Chicago leads 20–⁠4–⁠1 in 25 meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1936Indiana 20, Chicago 7
1935Indiana 24, Chicago 0
1934Chicago 21, Indiana 0
1933Indiana 7, Chicago 7
1932Chicago 13, Indiana 7
1931Indiana 32, Chicago 6

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