Illinois at Northwestern

Saturday, November 11, 1933

Illinois beat Northwestern 3–⁠0. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 15–⁠9–⁠3.

AwayIllinois5–⁠3 in 1933
3
HomeNorthwestern1–⁠5–⁠2 in 1933
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL. RESUITS.&

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 13, 1933, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL. RESUITS.& The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington 0; California B. Washington State IA; Idaho 6. Stanford 13; Southern California 2. UCLA IA; San Diego Marines 13. St. Mary’s ‘; College of Pacific O.. Montana 13; Gonzaga ‘. Oregon State 8; Oregon 13. Olympic Club T; West Coast Navy 0. Georgia ‘; Yale 0. Carnegie Tech o; Michigan 0. Johns Hopkins 6; Penn State 40. O; Princeton 2. Ohio State 20; Pennsylvania T. Duke 38; Maryland ‘. Navy T; Columbia IA. Holy Cross 27; Manhattan 6. Syracuse ?; Brown 10. Williams o; Wesleyan 6. Army 27; Harvard 0. Trinity T; Amhert 6. Illinois 3; Northwestern 0. Purdue 19; Notre Dame 0. Indiana T; Chicago T. Virginia 0; Washington and Lee 6. Sewanee IA; Vanderbilt 27. Florida ‘; Georgie Tech 19. Mississippi 6; Tennessee 35. Fordham 20; New York Univer- sity 12. Kansas 0; Nebraska 12. Baylor 3; Texas 0. College of Idaho 12; College of Puget Sound 54.

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 57% to win. Illinois won as Elo’s underdog.

Illinois leads 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Illinois 20, Northwestern 13
2024Illinois 38, Northwestern 28
2023Northwestern 45, Illinois 43
2022Illinois 41, Northwestern 3
2021Illinois 47, Northwestern 14
2020Northwestern 28, Illinois 10

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