Michigan at Illinois

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  Evening star, November 6, 1939, page 14

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  they lose one, the worst they can do is share the diadem. Illinois Gives UNEXPECTED Helm. Illinois Gives Unexpected Help. Ohio State was accorded co-op- GRAFTON from wholly unexpected source Saturday when lowly Illinois, which had scored only one touchdown in four games, turned back hitherto undefeated and untied Michigan. 16 to 7. While the Wolverines were being smacked around the Gophers took a bit Of the same treatment from a rapidly developing Northwestern eleven which won, IA to Z. IT Ohio State should wind up with a record of five victories and one defeat in the conference, North western and Iowa would have chance to share the top berth. The Wildcats play Purdue this Saturday, then Iowa November Is. Iowa Plays Notre Dame. Iowa, after taking on Notre Dame Saturday, faces Minnesota and Northwestern. If either team wins its remaining two conference games 1t will finish with record of five wins in six games. Wisconsin, idle last week, goes after an improved rating this week

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  The Nome nugget, November 6, 1939, page 3 (results column)

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  Football Scores November 4 Iowa 4-Purdue o Texas Aggies 21-Arkansas 0 Duke 7-Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13-MisSouri 27 Northwestern 14-MinneSota 2 Kentucky 7-Alabama ‘, tie Michigan 7-Illinois 16 Tennessee 20-Louisian State c Washington 9-Montana 0 Idaho 19-Utah State ? Oregon 38-Washington State 0 Southern California 19- Ore gen State 2 Santa Clara 27-Stanford ‘ UCLA 20-California Notre Dame 14-Army 0 Rice 7-Fordham 13 Navy 6-Penn 13 Harvard 6-Princeton 9 Columbia 7-Cornell 13 Pitt 13-Temple 7 Indiana 0-Ohio Etate 27 St. Marys 6-Dayton Univer- sity 6 San Francisco University IA Loyalo Los Angeles ‘ Texas Christian 0-Baylor 27

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Michigan leads 72–⁠24–⁠2 in 98 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.