Ohio State at Chicago

Saturday, November 9, 1935

Ohio State beat Chicago 20–⁠13. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Ohio State led the series 6–⁠2–⁠2.

AwayOhio State7–⁠1 in 1935
20
HomeChicago4–⁠4 in 1935
13

FinalAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: OHIO STATE RALLY DEFEATS CHICAGO Three Late Touchdowns by Buckeyes Account for 20.13 Triumph.

    Evening star, November 10, 1935, page 28

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    OHIO STATE RALLY DEFEATS CHICAGO Three Late Touchdowns by Buckeyes Account for 20.13 Triumph. - HICAGO, November 9.-In a blood and thunder thriller an infuriated Ohio State ~ team came from behind today and fought with all its power to keep its Western Conference record unblemished. Trailing the down. trodden Chicago Maroons, 13 to o, midway in the third period Of their game. the Buck eyes cut loose with a smashing, pass ing drive that resulted in three touch downs, and 20 to 13 triumph. Fifteen thousand spectators braved drizzling rain and a chilling wind to witness the conflict. Ohio State got the victory and remained undefeated In Big Ten competition. But the glory Of the game belonged to Jay Berwanger. captain OF the Maroons. The great Chicago halfback raced IS yards down the field through the whole Buckeye team, lodging and twisting in the snakiest gallop seen on Stagg field since the famed Red Grange sped over the gridiron 10 years ago.

  • The The Indianapolis times's story

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 11, 1935, page 1 (results column)

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    AlC AONolS dllAlAAlt 4 honors and have only to defeat West Saturday to wind up the season with Notre Dame skidded from the ranks of the nations undefeated teams Saturday when the Irish suffered setback at the hands of Northwestern, AT. Purdue ran into its third straight defeat, this time by Wisconsin, 80, while Indiana came through with its second consecutive outstanding performance to down Maryland, 1871. The Irish have two rivalry tits left, Army at New York next Saturday, and Southern California at South Bend on Nov. %. 1t is interesting to note that both Notre Dame and Ohio State were far below par in their games Saturday, simply because they sapped much of their strength as they bat tied each other at Columbus on Nov. 2. Notre Dame had the stronger OPP ponent Saturday in Northwestern and lost, whereas Ohio State was able to overpower Chicago with reserves and came from behind to win, 20–⁠13. 1. u. Up From Behind Indiana, after a good showing against Ohio State and then start ling upset performance against Iowa week after when the HooSiers tied the Hawks, 6–⁠6, came through with a final last quarter rally to down Maryland, 1877, after trailing, 7–⁠6. Purdue dropped the 80 decision to Wisconsin because the Badgers were able to stop the Boilermaker run ming attack in the first half and present an equally good defense to the Boilermaker aerial attack when it was attempted in the last half. AS the annual rivalry tilt between Indiana and Purdue draws near the indications for a great battle in crease. Indiana travels to Chicago this week for the annual game with the Maroons while Purdue plays at home for the second time this season with Iowa as the attraction in a Dads Day” feature. 1t will be the fourteenth meeting of the two teams. One of the states oldest rivalries will be extended another year at Charlottesville Saturday when De Paw and Wabash meet in the home coming game for the Little Giants old grads and with the Vic tory Bell at stake. 1t will be the season finale for both teams. Both Rivals Win Both the Little Giants and Tigers came through their games last Saturday with easy victories, Wabash downing Evansville, $50, and De Paw dropping Earlham, 1870. Coach Pete Vaughan of Wabash used two full teams and the drive of the second string was particularly pleasing to the veteran coach. Wa bash scored in every quarter. De Paw tailed in the first three periods, Villapiano climaxing a first quarter drive of rs yards and pass, Shafter to Hickman. counting in the second quarter. Villapiano dashed 40 yards for the third marker in the third quarter. Ball State and Manchester battIed through four quarters of Scoreless football at Muncie Saturday, both teams faltering within 20 wards of the goal. Indiana State Teachers of Terre Haute will wind up their season at home Saturday against Evans vile. State dropped a 10-to-7 decision to Michigan Normal at Ypsilanti Saturday after gaining a TO lead early in the game when Wey passed to Miklozek for touchdown and E. Shouse place kicked the exira point. Valparaiso Uhlans took a lacing at the hands of De Paul of Chicago Saturday, 46–⁠0, and will find the opposition tough this week when they play Illinois Wesleyan at Decatur. Rose Poly handed the Oakland City College eleven a 21–⁠6 defeat in the season Windup tilt for the Oaks. Three Won, Three Tied Central Normal wound up an odd season Saturday with an 1872 VIC tory over Eastern Illinois Normal at Charleston. Coach Sewell H. Lietzmans charges won three games dur ing the season, tied three games and lost one. Big Don Elser of Notre Dame smashed his way over the goal line in the first few minutes against Northwestern, but the tally was nullified by holding penalty. He took up where he left off and aided by Mike Layden smashed and spun to the one-foot mark from where Wally Fromhart tailed a touch down on quarter back sneak. Fromhart also place kicked the exira point. Northwestern broke loose suddenly on Notre Danes reserves and Heap made a 26-yard run and Cruice passed to Henry LongfelloW in the end zone for the touchdown that, when followed by Duvalls place kick, tied the count TT at half time. The game remained this way until late in the last quarter when Notre Dame became afflicted with tumble tits and the Wildcats recovered IN,

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 11, 1935, page 7 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY .. q ] H-f sfs -l. The following are final scores of football games played last Saturday afternoon; a, Washington State 6; Idaho O. Washington o; California IA. Whitman 3; College of Idaho O. College of Puget Sound 60; Univer- sity of British Columbia 0. Stanford 3; Southern California O. Oregon State 0; Oregon 13. University of Hawaii ‘; Denver IA. Georgia 26; Tulane 13. Michigan O; Illinois 3. Minnesota 13; Iowa 3. Ohio State 20; Chicago 13. Arkansas T; Rice 20. Northwestern IA, Notre Dame [ Navy IS; Penn 0. St. Marys T; Fordham T. Harvard O; Princeton 35. Brown 0; Yale 20. Marquette l3; Michigan State T. Purdue O.; Wisconsin 8. Carnegie Tech 0; Holy Cross T. Indiana 13; Maryland T.

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)

Ohio State 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Ohio State leads 10–⁠2–⁠2 in 14 meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1939Ohio State 61, Chicago 0
1938Ohio State 42, Chicago 7
1937Ohio State 39, Chicago 0
1936Ohio State 44, Chicago 0
1935Ohio State 20, Chicago 13
1934Ohio State 33, Chicago 0

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