Iowa at Illinois
Saturday, October 26, 1935 Share
Iowa beat Illinois 19–0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 11–7–1.
FinalHigh 67°F, low 46°FAttendance 26,647
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 27, 1935, page 31
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POWERFUL IOWA CRUSHES ILLINOIS Simmons, Crayne Leaders otFiery Attack That Wins, 1910, for HaWkeyes. ~ HAMPAIGN, III, october %. -Iowa’s foot ball forces. undefeated and previously ~ thrice victorious this season, turned thei. full fury on Illinois today. crushing the Illini, 19 to o. A crowd Of $4,000 sat in sun drenched Memorial Stadium to watch rogt OF the tricky. iorWard-pasS ing Illini, and with bulging eyes, saw great open field running Of Iowa’s Negro star fullDack. Oze Simmons. a 21-year-old youth from Fort Worth, Tex. Simmons, with breath taking gal lop of II yards broke through center in the third play after the second period opened, dashed down the field into the clear and raced on to touch down outrunning his pursuers and skillfully dodging the last Illinois defense man.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 28, 1935, page 5 (results column)
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GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are final scores of principal football games played in various parts of the country last Sat- urday afternoon: Washington State 26; Oregon State IS. Wisconsin T; Chicago 13. Idaho IA; Montana 2. University of Portland 2; Santa Clara 21. Southern California T; California 21. Oregon 6; UCLA B. Washburn O; Gonzaga 21. Washington 0; Stanford G. Army IA; Yale 6. Princeton 54; Cornell 0. Colgate 0; Holy Cross 3. Dartmouth IA; Harvard 6. Iowa 19; Illinois 0. Minnesota 21; Northwestern 10. Notre Dame 13; Navy o. Rice 28; Texas 19. Penn State O; Pittsburgh g. Alabama IT; Georgia 2. Louisiana State 2; Vanderbilt 2. Sewanee 0; Tulane B. Centre IA; Tennessee 25. Oklahoma o; Nebraska 19. Ohio State 28; Indiana 6. Georgia Tech o; North Carolina 19. Mississippi ‘; Marquette 33. Carnegie Tech ‘; Purdue 0. Lafayette o; Pennsylvania 67. Lebanon Valley o; Fordham 15. Villanova IS; Detroit 19. SUNDAY GAME St. Marys 13; University of San Francisco 0.
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)
Illinois 68% to win. Iowa pulled the upset.
The series
Every Iowa–Illinois gameIllinois leads 39–38–2 in 79 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.
| 2023 | Iowa 15, Illinois 13 | |
| 2022 | Illinois 9, Iowa 6 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 33, Illinois 23 | |
| 2020 | Iowa 35, Illinois 21 | |
| 2019 | Iowa 19, Illinois 10 | |
| 2018 | Iowa 63, Illinois 0 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gamevs. IndianaNov. 2, 1935
- SeasonIowa in 1935
- ProgramIowa history and records
Illinois
- Next gameat NorthwesternNov. 2, 1935
- SeasonIllinois in 1935
- ProgramIllinois history and records

