Wisconsin at Iowa

Saturday, October 12, 1940

Iowa beat Wisconsin 30–⁠12. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 12–⁠6.

AwayWisconsin4–⁠4 in 1940
12
HomeIowa4–⁠4 in 1940
30

FinalHigh 86°F, low 52°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Whitney, Mellon Horses Capture Major Share of onor Uppere Show Iowa in Big Ten Race, Rouf Of Wisconsin By 30-12 Hints Badgers Are OuteIossed After Holding Howkeyes To Tie in First Half

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1940, page 1

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    Whitney, Mellon Horses Capture Major Share of onor Uppere Show Iowa in Big Ten Race, Rouf Of Wisconsin By 30–⁠12 Hints Badgers Are OuteIossed After Holding Howkeyes To Tie in First Half IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 12.-Iowa’s Hawkeyes fired sharp warning to bidders for the 1910 Western Conference football championship today by routing Wisconsin, 80 to II, before $4,000 dads day fans here. The Hawkeyes roared back with second-half scoring spree to crush the hopeful Badgers after a 12-to-12 first-half tie Bounding Bill Green, a Junior full back, counted three touchdowns to lead the Iowans to an impressive victory. Iowas big Jim Walker, Negro tackle, then rushed in to block an attempted punt by Gordon Gle. scooped up the ball on the Iowa As and rambled SIS yards for a touch down. Early in the fourth period, Green scampered IS yards for a touchdown to put Iowa ahead, “a to IL, and with five minutes left to play, Burdell oops Gilleard snagged a pass and skillfully picked his way for the fifth and final Iowa score

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-Ucla 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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Iowa 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 49–⁠48–⁠2 in 99 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Iowa 37, Wisconsin 0
2024Iowa 42, Wisconsin 10
2023Iowa 15, Wisconsin 6
2022Iowa 24, Wisconsin 10
2021Wisconsin 27, Iowa 7
2020Iowa 28, Wisconsin 7

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