Iowa at Northwestern
Saturday, November 25, 1939 Share
No. 9 Iowa and Northwestern tied 7–7. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Iowa led the series 13–8–3.
FinalHigh 43°F, low 38°F, 0.02 in. of rainAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 27, 1939, page 3
Read the text
OHIO STATE WINS TITLE FREAK RACE loses fo Michigan But Iowa, Northwestern Tie Helps Out s ANN ARBOR, Mlch., Nov. 27. Y Ohio State won the Western Con- ference Football Championship last Saturday in much the same manner that Max Schmeling won the worlds heavyweight title-flat on it’s back before more than 8O,O00 spectators. Iowa, needing a victory to tie Ohio State for the title, lost the chance by playing to deadlock with Northwestern and Michigan wrecked the Buckeye hopes by spot tng Ohio two first period touch downs then roared back to win 21 to IA.
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 63% to win.
The series
Every Iowa–Northwestern gameIowa leads 55–28–3 in 86 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.
| 2024 | Iowa 40, Northwestern 14 | |
| 2023 | Iowa 10, Northwestern 7 | |
| 2022 | Iowa 33, Northwestern 13 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 17, Northwestern 12 | |
| 2020 | Northwestern 21, Iowa 20 | |
| 2019 | Iowa 20, Northwestern 0 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gamevs. South DakotaOct. 5, 1940
- SeasonIowa in 1939
- ProgramIowa history and records
Northwestern
- Next gameat SyracuseOct. 5, 1940
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1939
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records