Iowa at Northwestern
Saturday, October 6, 1934 Share
Iowa beat Northwestern 20–7. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Iowa led the series 13–7–1.
FinalAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 11, 1934, page 18
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The lone exception is Wisconsin. which catches its last “breather” against South Dakota State at Madison. Minnesota has an open date, but the rest of the Big Ten teams will have to cut loose with all their stuff to stay in last football company. Grange to Be HOnOred The two conference games bring together Ohio State and Illinois at Champaign, and Chicago and Mich igan at Stage field. Illinois will honor its greatest football player, Red Grange. at the Ohio State home coming game, which is expected to draw crowd of 10000. The victor of the Illinois Ohio State game will be one Of the favor ties in the Big Ten title race Ohio State, under its new coach, Francis Schmidt from Texas Chris tan, ripped Indiana apart last week. $50, Illinois had to stage an eighty f1ve-yard drive IN the final period to defeat Washington U. at ST. Louis, but there is a suspicion that Bob zuppke was playing pos sum. Both Harry Kipke, Michigan coach, and Clark Shaughnessy, Chi cago mentor. contend their teams haven’t a chance for victory when they meet, but the battle may prove one of the most exciting of the day. Iowa Plays Nebraska Two conference teams play inter sectional games on opposite sides OF the continent, Northwestern meet ing Stanford at Palo Alto and Indiana opposing Temple at Philadelphia. The Big Ten will be lucky to get an even break IN these two battles. Notre Dame and Purdue, both beaten by Texas teams in their opening games, each will attempt to redeem last weeks defeat. Purdue will be slightly favored If Duane Purvis, all-America half back, is ready to play. Iowa, conqueror of Northwestern last week, will attempt to duplicate AIinnesota’s 300 triumph over Nebraska. The Hawkeyes’ 20–7 VIC tory over Northwestern established them as one of the most dangerous teams in the Big Ten.
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 56% to win. Iowa won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Iowa–Northwestern gameIowa leads 55–28–3 in 86 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.
| 2024 | Iowa 40, Northwestern 14 | |
| 2023 | Iowa 10, Northwestern 7 | |
| 2022 | Iowa 33, Northwestern 13 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 17, Northwestern 12 | |
| 2020 | Northwestern 21, Iowa 20 | |
| 2019 | Iowa 20, Northwestern 0 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gameat NebraskaOct. 13, 1934
- SeasonIowa in 1934
- ProgramIowa history and records
Northwestern
- Next gameat StanfordOct. 13, 1934
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1934
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records

