Michigan at Illinois

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 25, 1931, page 61

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  FINE MICHIGAN TEAM ROUTS ILLINOIS, $50 Reveals Superiority From Outset in Rolling Up Biggest Score Against Old Rivals. CHAMPAIGN, H., october “a Michigan’s foot ball forces completely ruined Illinois homecoming today by in nicting the worst defeat that zuppkecoached team has ever suffered. 1t was a Michigan massacre. with the wolverines triumphing, IS to 0. 1t was the biggest score ever rolled UP by a Michigan team against its old-time rival in their 80 years of foot ball relations. Charged through passed over and battered helpless by the swinging Wolvcrimes, Illinois never threatened except for flash and never passed the Michigan 35-yard line. A crowd of $4,000 sat dumbfounded at the route Of Illinois eleven. The Wolverines, showing superiority from the outset, registered touchdowns IN the first and second periods. and crashed over three more in the fourth. Michigan registered IA first downs to two for Illinois. The wolverines bat tered Illinois for 243 yards. while the best Illinois could do was 81. William Hewitt, 185-pound fullback, was the bombshell Of the Wolverines running attack. He carried the ball “a times for 161 yards, averaging better than yards in every attempt.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 26, 1931, page 5 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL RESULTS The following are final scores in principal football games played in various parts of the states last Saturday: Washington 0; Stanford o. Oregon Normal 0; Oregon State 37. Southern California 6; California O. Washington State College 13; Montana O.. Baltimore 6; Villanova 61. Iowa o; Minnesota 34. Drake O; Fordham 46. Michigan 35; Illinois 0. Indiana 32; Chicago 6. Rutgers 0; Holy Cross 27. Kansas 0; Nebraska 6. Vanderbilt 0; Georgia g. North Dakota 0; Oregon Univer- sity o. Army 6; Yale 6. Wisconsin IS; Pennsylvania 27 Northwestern 10; Ohio State 0. Navy as; Princeton O. Texas 2; Harvard 35. Purdue 13; Carnegie Tech 6. Notre Dame 25; Pittsburgh l2.

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Michigan leads 72–⁠24–⁠2 in 98 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.