Iowa at Temple
Saturday, November 21, 1936 Share
Iowa beat No. 20 Temple 25–0. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 42°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 22, 1936, page 33
Read the text
GATHERING IOWA CRUSHES TEMPLE Scores $50 Upset in Game Marked by Rough, Tough Foot Ball Play. ~ HILADELPHIA, November 21- - In as bruising and battering a battle as even the hardest foot L ball fan could ask, Iowa’s Hawkeyes sprang major surprise on an Eastern power today by walloping Temples Owls, rs to o. Twenty-Five thousand fans turned out for the game despite a cold wind, and in addition to the regulation grid iron fare, they were treated to an as sortment Of rough, tough tactics on both sides. that brought 90 yards in penalties, rs Of them to Iowa, and resuited in nine men being carried off the field, six of them from the Iowa lineup. The play Of Homer Harris, a rugged Iowa end, on the defense. and the offensive brilliance Of the hashy Oze Simmons and his halfback running mate, Bush Lamb, were the outstanding factors Of the victory. Lamb turned out to be a wolf under another name so far as the Owls were concerned, as he ratified of gain after gain, scored two OF his teams four touchdowns, and generally led the Hawkeyes throughout the game.

The Nome daily nugget, November 21, 1936, page 4 (results column)
Read the text
Scores Of Football Games Saturday Georgia ‘ Fordham 2 tie. Harvard 13 Yale IA Marquette 0 Duquesne 13 Iowa 25 Temple 0 Arizona 0 Michigan State 2 Colgate 13 Syracuse 0 Dartmouth 13 Princeton 13 tie Hobart ‘ Army 51 Michigan 0 Ohio State 21 City College N. Y. 2 N Y U 25 Lehigh IS Lafayette 0 Bucknell 0 Penn State IA Northwestern 6 Notre Dame 26
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)
Temple 79% to win. Iowa pulled the upset.
The series
Every Iowa–Temple gameIowa leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gameat WashingtonSept. 25, 1937
- SeasonIowa in 1936
- ProgramIowa history and records
Temple
- Next gamevs. BucknellNov. 28, 1936
- SeasonTemple in 1936
- ProgramTemple history and records

