Northwestern at Illinois
Saturday, October 22, 1938 Share
No. 18 Northwestern beat Illinois 13–0. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 17–12–3.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 44°FAttendance 37,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, October 25, 1938, page 5
Read the text
Miss Scores of Three Grid Games Scores of three football games, missing from Mondays list are as follows: On Saturday afternoon, Louisiana State beat Vanderbilt ‘ to and Northwestern defeated Illinois 13 to 0. On Sunday, St. Mary’s won over San Francisco by score of 13 to6.
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)
Northwestern 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Northwestern–Illinois gameIllinois leads 59–55–5 in 119 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.
Around this game
Northwestern
- Next gamevs. MinnesotaOct. 29, 1938
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1938
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records
Illinois
- Next gameat MichiganOct. 29, 1938
- SeasonIllinois in 1938
- ProgramIllinois history and records