Illinois at Michigan

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 20, 1940, page 29

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  Westfa|| PAGES B-0 Michigan Victory Over Illinois Harmon Scores 10 Points To Boost Season TotoI To 79 in Four Comes ANN ARBOR. Mich. Oct. ia vengeful Michigan football team, with Sure-footed Bob Westfall smashing through the Illinois for wards on slippery turf, crushed Coach Bob Zuppke’s eleven today, % TO 0, for its fourth consecutive victory. While 39.ll4 rain and wind swept Homecoming fans shivered in the stands, WeStfall rammed through the line for l52 yards in 81 tries TO lead the Wolverines to a triumph over the team that upset them in 1899. Michigan rushed across two touchdowns in the first period. one on Award off tackle by All-America Tom Harmon. Just before the half ended Harmon booted a field goal from the 20 yard line. The Wolverines piled up II first downs to ) by Illinois and 240 yards by rushing to “a. The vic toIE was MlollISdHS AtSl al VIC Western Conference campaign. The Illini trained their sights on Harmon and for the first time this season the l93-pound halfbac’; was held short of three touchdowns. But he place-kicked an extra point in addition to his touchdown and field goal and boosted his seasons scoring total to 10 points in four

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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  Hi|NY5.iIJ Scores The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon Oregon State o: University of Washington 19. Stanford 26; Washington State IA. U.C.LA. T; California g. Oregon 0; University of Southern California 13. Duke 13; Colgate O. Princeton 28; Pennsylvania 46. Maryland o; Florida l9. Vanderbilt 0; Georgia Tech 19. Nebraska 53; Kansas g. Idaho o; Boston College 60. Iowa 6; Indiana 10. Carnegie Tech O; Notre Dame 61 Iowa State IA Missouri 30. Rice 6; Tulane 15. Northwestern 27; Wisconsin T. Tennessee 27; Alabama 12. Texas 2l; Arkansas O. Illinois 0; Michigan 28. Drake 0; Navy 19. Georgia IS; Columbia 19. Syracuse 6; Cornell 33 Holy Cross 13; NY.U. 2. Fordham 24; Pittsburgh 12. Dartmouth ‘; Yale 13 Army 6; Harvard 6, tie. Penn State 34; Lehigh 0. Connecticut 13; Maine G. Minnesota 13; Ohio State T.

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.

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