Illinois at Northwestern

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  Evening star, November 7, 1937, page 27

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  FIGHTING ILLINOIS TAMES WILDCATS Ruins NorthWestern’s Faint Hope of Big Ten Title Tie in 60 Game. “ VANSTON, Ill, Nov. GA de- X termined, lighting Illinois team pushed Northwestern all over Dyche Stadium for So sunlit minutes today to score q smashing up set 6-to-0 victory. A capacity crowd Of $4,000 saw the bruising struggle Thus the Illini ruined Northwest ern’s faint hopes of at least sharing a slice of the 1887 Western Confer ence championship. Playing with the same fire and spirit, that won them fame in their early-season scOreless tie with Notre Dame, the Illini opened up with 4 52-yard touchdown march in the clos ing minutes of the game. A busy little jackrabbit named Tony Mazeika. who has been sitting on the bench all season, spurted through the Northwestern line for a surprising running attack that completely upset the Wildcats. Both teams missed touchdowns in The second period, with Laskay DROP ping forward pass from jefferson on the goal line. Later in the period Illinois stopped 2 yards from North Westerns goal.

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  Imperial Valley press, California, November 7, 1937, page 1 (results column)

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  Grid Scores Final scores of Representative football games: Holy CrGSs IL; COfgate Ohio State 0; Indiana 10 Duquesne 0; Carnegie Tech 6 Mich. State Is; Temple 6 Penn 0; Penn State Z NYU 13; Lehigh 0 Manhattan Z; Detroit 0 Yale 10; Brown Harvard 6; Army Z Lafayette 13; Rutgers Navy 13; Columbia Princeton 8; Dartmouth 33 Fordham l21; Purdue 8 Michigan 13; Chicago IL VillanOva 25; Marquette 6 Georgia Tech I; Clemson 0 Northwestern 0; Illinois 6 Tulane 6; Alabama 8 Cincinnati O; Ohio II Pitt 21; Metre Dame Nebraska IS; Kansas 13 Auburn 20; Tennessee Vanderbilt Al; Swanee 6 st. Louis ID; Missouri Minnesota 35; Iowa 10

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Illinois leads 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 88 since this game.