Indiana at Iowa

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  Evening star, October 8, 1939, page 28

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  Iowa. Late Air Drive 0vercomes Indiana In 32–⁠29 Thriller IS. IOWA CITY, Iowa. Oct. 7.--1owa’s S HaWkeyes roared back in the last quarter with two thrill-packed rallies here today to clip the wings of 1ndiana’s aerial sharpshooters, 80 to 49, in wild, free-for all scoring bat tie that kept approximately 10000 fans in continuous suspense. 1t was the first Western Confer ence triumph for Iowa at home since October, 1888. The Hawkeyes, behind 20 to % going into the fourth period, pulled into 26 to % count by marching 70 yards for touchdown, then followed through with only four minutes left to play with a stunning game winning touchdown pass from Nile Kinnick to Capt. Erwin Prasse. 1t was the third point-making performance for the Kinnick-Prasse passing combination. The score was tied 20 to 20 after a thrill-packed first half.

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.

Iowa leads 46–⁠29–⁠4 in 79 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.