Illinois at Northwestern
Saturday, November 2, 1935 Share
Northwestern beat Illinois 10–3. It was their 29th meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 16–10–3.
Final
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 4, 1935, page 5 (results column)
Read the text
EOOT BALL 41REsULTs The following are final scores oi the principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Gonzaga q; Washington State 0. Montana T; Washington 33. Santa Clara 6; Stanford g. California IA; UCLA 3. Oregon State 19; University of Portland g. Purdue ‘; Minnesota 29. Iowa State 12; Marquette 28 City College of New York 0; Man. haitian 65 Detroit T; Villanova 13. Duquesne 2; Carnegie Tech o. Texas 0; Southern Methodist 20. Nebraska 19; Missouri 6. Kentucky O; Alabama IS. Illinois 3; Northwestern 10. Vanderbilt IA; Georgie Tech 13. Tulane IA Colgate 6. Mississippi State IS; Army q Notre Dame IS; Ohio State 13. Brown o; Harvard B. Navy O; Princeton 26. Dartmouth IA; Yale 6. Columbia 2; Cornell 2. Pitt 0; Fordham O. Penn State 3; Syracuse 2. Pennsylvania 6; Michigan 16. SUNDAY GAME University of San Francisco 9; Loyola of Los Angeles 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.
On the newsreel
- NORTHWESTERN TOPPLES ILLINI IN HOME COMING
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Illinois 56% to win. Northwestern won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Illinois–Northwestern gameIllinois leads 59–55–5 in 119 meetings, counting the 90 since this game.
Around this game
Illinois
- Next gamevs. MichiganNov. 9, 1935
- SeasonIllinois in 1935
- ProgramIllinois history and records
Northwestern
- Next gameat Notre DameNov. 9, 1935
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1935
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records

