Illinois at Wisconsin

Saturday, November 5, 1932

Wisconsin beat Illinois 20–⁠12. It was their 17th meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 8–⁠7–⁠2.

AwayIllinois5–⁠4 in 1932
12
HomeWisconsin6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1932
20

FinalHigh 57°F, low 35°FAttendance 23,000

In the newspapers

  • 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)

Wisconsin 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 46–⁠38–⁠7 in 91 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Wisconsin 27, Illinois 10
2023Wisconsin 25, Illinois 21
2022Illinois 34, Wisconsin 10
2021Wisconsin 24, Illinois 0
2020Wisconsin 45, Illinois 7
2019Illinois 24, Wisconsin 23

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