Chicago at Illinois

Saturday, November 23, 1935

Chicago beat Illinois 7–⁠6. It was their 39th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 18–⁠18–⁠3.

AwayChicago4–⁠4 in 1935
7
HomeIllinois3–⁠5 in 1935
6

FinalHigh 36°F, low 18°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Field Soon to Be Narrowed. Stars Saturday

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1935, page 14 (results column)

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    Field Soon to Be Narrowed. Stars Saturday Bill Guckeyson. Maryland-Ran 90 and so yards for touchdowns as Mary land beat Georgetown. 1876. Jay Berwanger, Chicago-Sang his collegiate foot ball swan song by scoring all his teams points in 7–⁠6 victory over Illinois. Huffman, Indiana-Caught pass, ran a. yards for touchdown that beat Purdue, TO. Fromhart and Shakespeare. Notre Dame-Starred In Irish 2o-l3 victory over Southern California. Joe Bukant, Washington University-Threw three scoring passes, ran for touchdown as his team beat Okla homs A. and M, 1918. Kelley, Yale-Caught pass for Yales first touchdown against Harvard; played fine defensive game In his teams 14–⁠7 victory. Grayson, Stanford-Was the big star as Stanford toppled California from the unbeaten list, 1870. Parker, Duke-Ran 10 yards for touchdown that gave Duke TO VIC COIy OsCI INOk I’ll @aAOtAAAn 5bobC. Joe Patrick, Georgetown (Ky) Col lege-Accounted for seven Of his teams nine touchdowns in $50 rout Of Hanover College. Bobby Wilson, Southern Methodist Led his team to 100 victory over stubborn Baylor with brilliant run ming and, passing In the last half. Bsugh and Lester, Texas Christian Starred Ia bacifield and line, respeclively, % Texas Christian beat Rice, H.a

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 71% to win. Chicago pulled the upset.

Illinois leads 22–⁠18–⁠3 in 43 meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1939Illinois 46, Chicago 0
1938Illinois 34, Chicago 0
1937Illinois 21, Chicago 0
1936Illinois 18, Chicago 7
1935Chicago 7, Illinois 6
1934Illinois 6, Chicago 0

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