Ohio State at Northwestern

Saturday, November 5, 1932

Ohio State beat Northwestern 20–⁠6. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Ohio State led the series 7–⁠4.

AwayOhio State4–⁠1–⁠3 in 1932
20
HomeNorthwestern3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1932
6

FinalAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story

    Imperial Valley press, California, November 10, 1932, page 1

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    CHICAGO, Nov. 10.-A few opinions, observations and notes on the football season: Notre Dame is not so wrought up over that loss to Pitt as some would like to make it appear. . The games the Irish really want to win are with Northwestern, Army and Southern California. And if they have to lose one of those three they had rather it would be against Army. But there are a lot of football men who think the Pitt defeat shook the conceit out of the Notre Dame team and that it won’t loose another game. Ohio States record isn’t much to brag about but the team that smashed Northwestern, 20–⁠6 last week would give any eleven in the land a run for its money. Sid Gilman, Buckeyes right end. is one of the best all-round wing men in the west. He was good enough for the all-Big Ten team against Northwestern but they say his game against Wisconsin was the greatest ever played by an end in Ohio’s big horseshoe stadium. And they say that includes any thing Yves Fesler, 1890 all-American, ever turned in. Lew Hinchman, Ohio State cap tain, is one of the Big Tens class lest backs off his Northwestern game. He’s the son OF the old time Pittsburgh ball player. i.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: RESUIIS8

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 7, 1932, page 5 (results column)

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    RESUIIS8 The following are scores of inn portant football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington IS; Stanford 13. Idaho 0; Washington State 12. Oregon 12; Oregon State 6. California T; Southern California 27. College of Pacific 0; Santa Clara 27. Mississippi 0; Minnesota 26. Purdue 37; Chicago 0. Nebraska IA; Iowa 13. Notre Dame “A; Kansas 6. Ohio State 20; Northwestern 6. Michigan T; Indiana O. Army 46; Harvard 0. St. Marys 0; Fordham IA. Pittsburgh 19 Pennsylvania 12. Illinois 12; Wisconsin 20. Columbia T; Navy 6. Holy Cross ‘; Brown 10. Virginia Poly. Institute 6; Ala bama g. South Dakota 6; Michigan State 20. Georgia T; New York Univer- sity 13. Lehigh 0; Princeton 53. New Hampshire O.; Dartmouth 25 Tulane 20; Georgia Tech IA. Iowa State O.; Kansas State 31 Wyoming 0; Denver University ‘ Utah 14; Colorado o. SUNDAY GAME Gonzaga 6; San Francisco O.

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 67% to win. Ohio State pulled the upset.

Ohio State leads 66–⁠14–⁠1 in 81 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Ohio State 31, Northwestern 7
2022Ohio State 21, Northwestern 7
2020Ohio State 22, Northwestern 10Big Ten Championship Game
2019Ohio State 52, Northwestern 3
2018Ohio State 45, Northwestern 24Big Ten Championship Game
2016Ohio State 24, Northwestern 20

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