Northwestern at Michigan

Saturday, November 12, 1938

No. 17 Northwestern and No. 18 Michigan tied 0–⁠0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Michigan led the series 7–⁠6–⁠1.

Away17Northwestern4–⁠2–⁠2 in 1938
0
Home18Michigan6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1938
0

FinalAttendance 71,010

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Football Scores

    Imperial Valley press, November 13, 1938, page 4 (results column)

    Read the text

    Football Scores Continued From Page y Colorado 8, Brigham Young Wyoming p. Utah State L Notre Dame 70, Minnesota 0. Princeton 20 Ea-= :. Penn :. Penn State :. Ge,rzet5wn Il. West virginia 0. Michigan 0. Northwestern 0. Carnegie Tech ?L Duquesne 0. Duke q. Syracuse o. FoEtazm Q No. Carolina 0. srny J. Chattanooga l.. NJ. Carolina state o. Detroit :. Ra.ge-s s. lafayette 0. Harvard Il. Virginia L. Navy Il Columbia 9. NuaIeube-e %, Lehigh 0. ViIlanova %. Temple 0. Cornell H. Dartmouth :. C1eo. Washington Q. Kansas :. Amherst Il. Williams 0 army – chattanooga Is Tan l.. Colorado State Detroit :. North Carolina ; 0 Rutgers 5. Lafayette 0 DUKE q. Syracuse 0 Georgetown IA, West Virginia 0 Pennsylvania :, Penn State : Georgia Tech IA, Alabama IA Pittsburgh l9- Nebraska IIlans %, Georgia florida p, Maryland ! Kansas state -, Iowa State Is Texas Aggies p, Rice 0 Texas Christian %, Texas 6 Mis- issippi 80, Sewanee 0 Indiana :. Iowa 3 Michigan state 20, Marquette Southern Methodist 10 Arkansas Ohio state 80, Illinois IA Oklahoma q, Missouri 0

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.

On the newsreel

  • “WILDCATS" IN 0-0 DEADLOCK80,000 wildly cheering grid fans see the Northwestern "Wildcats" and Michigan "Wolverines" fight to a furious scoreless tie, with the tide of battle swinging back and forth for four thrilling periodsUniversal Newsreel, November 16, 1938. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Michigan 54% to win.

Michigan leads 61–⁠15–⁠2 in 78 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Michigan 24, Northwestern 22
2024Michigan 50, Northwestern 6
2021Michigan 33, Northwestern 7
2018Michigan 20, Northwestern 17
2015Michigan 38, Northwestern 0
2014Michigan 10, Northwestern 9

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