Illinois at Wisconsin

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1940, page 38

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  Tennant’s Long Dash Gets 1876 Victory For Wisconsin Poser. Trapped, EIudes Illinois Defense to Go 81 Yurds to Score by tne hsSOclhLeo rrces’ MADISON, Wis, Nov. 2.-Wisconsin, aided by acting Capt. Johnny Tenants 62-yard touchdown sprint in the final period, defeated Illinois, Is to 6, today in a Western confer ence football clash before IS 1000 spectators. The Badger outlook looked dark early in the fourth quarter when Dick Good intercepted Tenants pass and ran it back to the Wisconsin A. Two plays later, however, Bob Mckay intercepted Goods aerial on Wisconsin’s 38. On the next play, Tenant, trapped behind the line, elected to run. He swung wide to his right, and behind good blocking, ran for a touchdown. Bob Ray, kicked the extra point. The game was only four minutes old when Wisconsin took an Illinois punt on the latter’s 49-yard line, and reeled of three first downs on fine runs by fullback George Paskvan and halfbacks Tenant and Don Miller. This brought them to the Illini 14-yard stripe where Paskvan hit center for score. Fred Cages kick was wide. Illinois lone tally climaxed the second period. Taking Wisconsin, tumble on the latters’ 39-yard line, Good heaved a series of passes to Lavere Astroth and Bob Gibbs which advanced the Illini to the 2-yard line. Myron Pfeifer went through center for the score. Jim McCarthy’s kick was wide.

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  The Nome nugget, November 4, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Scores Saturday, Nov ? l4) - Finals Oregon Fresh 0 - Washington Frosh 9. Oregon State 19-California 13 Washington State 26-Idaho 0 Stanford 20-UCLA IA Utah 2O-Colorado 13 Utah State 7-Brigham Young 12. Montana State T – Colorado Mines 21 Monaaa 0-Oregon 38. St. Mary’s 25-Portland 13 Santa Clara 27-University of San Francisco c Georgia Tech 7-Duke Al Temple 1O-Bucknell T Tulsa 7-Dstroit 0 Minnesota l3 - Northwestern l2 Baylor 12-Texas Christian fl Alabama 25-Kentucky 0 New York University 0-Miss- ouri 33 Mississippi 13-Vanderbilt T Louisiana State 0-TeneSsee 28 Purdue 2l-IoWa 6 Clemson 0-Tulane l3 Auburn l3-Georgia IA Illinois 6-Wisconsin 13 Notrs Dame Army 0 Navy 0-Pennsylvania 20 Colgate 6-Holy Cross 0 Dartmouth Observance 0 Brown 6 - Yale 2 Columbia 0-Cornell 27 Princeton 0-Harvard North Carolina 0-Fordham 14 Kansas State 0 - Michigan State l2 Boston College 25-Manhattan / 0. / Indiana 6-Ohio State 2l / Georgetown 28-SyracuSe

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Wisconsin leads 46–⁠38–⁠7 in 91 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.