Iowa at Wisconsin
Saturday, October 18, 1941 Share
Wisconsin beat Iowa 23–0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 13–6.
FinalHigh 54°F, low 50°F, 0.48 in. of rainAttendance 20,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 20, 1941, page 17 (results column)
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Big Ten 1uss|e Tops Imposing Football Gard Leading Teams in All n: Sectors Scheduled =, -; For Rugged Tests 4 NEW YORK. Oct 20-Natlonaf as well as sectional, football cham pionship hopes will be at stake ~ Ann Arbor this week. There tao powerful Western Conference ma chimes, Minnesota’s Gophers am Michigan’s Wolverines, will collide in the most important test OF the season to date Michigans fourth successive vlctory. thrilling l4–7 conquest Of Northwestern last Saturday, fourd the Wolverine defense thoroughly tested, especially IN the later stages when Northwestern hammered aVav INCREASINGLY in quest of an equallziHg touchdown. Sophomore Tom Zuzrr1, like his predecessor, All-Amerlca Tom Harmon, a product Of GARY, Ind. vas Michlgans offensive Star, tossing passes for both touchdoVns. Gophers’ Star Back Hurt. RI Mlchigans defense was adequate for Northwestern, but whether. u can halt Minnesota ls q duestlon that remains 10 be answered The Gophers. beating Pitt in routine fashion, 800, scored their third sue ceSsive victory this season and stretched their winning streak 70 II games in row, spread over three campaigns. Minnesota hasn’t been beaten since the next to last game on the Gophers’ 1899 schedule. when Iowa turned the trick, 1879. The victory over Pitt was costly enough. how ever. for Bruce Smith. star halfbacK, was hurt and had 10 leave the game to ioin a Minnesota casualty list that includes Urban Odson. great tackle. and Bob Sveiger. blocking back. Northwestern’s defeat blasted me Wildcats of the undefeated list along with Columbia. Cornell and Dartmouth Of the Eastern ivy League: Rice. Baylor and Texas Christian Of the Southwest Conference: Nebraska Of the Big siT. and Colorado State Of the Rocky Mountain Big Seven. % Majors Still Unbeaten, These casualties left the roll Of major unbeaten teams al %. three Of which have been tied Here’s how they are spread geographically: Esst-Armv. Navy Penn. Du1uesfe Fordham, Villanova, Temple ard Rutgers. Middle West Michigan Mia nesota. Ohio State, Notre Dame and Detroit \ South-Duke. Clemson. Vanderbilt, Georgia (tied and Mississippi State tied. Southwest Texas and Texas Ageies Far West-Santa Clara. Rocky Mountain-Utah ttied).- Most Of this weeks action viii be concentrated in the Central States, as this brief outline, by sections, demonstrates: Middle West. Minnesota Michigan clash tops the list. but Ohio State. also factor in the conference race. plays North western in another important test. The Buckeyes tripped Purdue, 1914, last week. but found sound reason for concern in the fact that the BoilermakerS came so close to over coming a 1910 deficit. Wisconsin and Indiana. both surprise winners last week. meet in another confer ence game. as do Iowa and Purdne. Iowa never was able to get starred against Wisconsin and the Badgers earned a decisive 23–0 victory. IN diana. with its running and passing attack finally clicking after three successive defeats. stopped Nebraska, 2l-13 -s-t Notre Dame. Disappointing “dn whipping weak Carnegie Tech. lS40, tackles Illinois Marquette, after convincing 53–7 triumph over Kansas, entertains hard-bitten Duquesne Detroit which had. a close 2O-l4 call with Oklahoma A. and M. meets Arkansas next The Big Six title probably will be decided at Columbia. where Missouri, 1918 conqueror OF Iowa State, tackles Nebraska. defending title holder; Kansas plays Iowa Stats in another conference tilt. while Oklahoma, after a 1910 victory over Kansas State. must face tough Santa Clara, which topped Michigan State, 10. ST. Southwest. Texas, which may we’ll be the team of the year. and Texas A. and NJ. are the lone unbeaten survivors. in this section. Texas, after a 1914 rout of Arkansas, now has rolled up 156 points in four games against See BARKER. Page Alb ~

The Daily Alaska empire, October 20, 1941, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BALL @ A{3SWG IFS Mr The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: UCLA T; University of Washing ton IA. California T. oregon 19. use T; Washington State 6. Idaho 16; Utah State o. Gonzaga 6; Montana 13. Michigan State o; Santa Clara T. University of San Francisco 26 Stanford 42. Ohio State 16; Purdue IA. Harvard 2; Dartmouth o. Penn 23; Princeton 0. Syracuse 31; University of New York 0. Army 20; Yale 2. Georgia T; Columbia 3. Mississippi 21; Holy Cross 0. Fordham 27; West Virginia 0. Brown 28; Tufts 6. Bucknell 6; Boston University o. Duke 27; Colgate 14. Oklahoma 16; Kansas State 0. Minnesota 39; Pittsburgh 0. Indiana 21; Nebraska l3. Wisconsin 23; Iowa 0. Boston College 26: Manhattan 13. Maryland 13; Florida 12. Illinois 40; Drake o. Alabama 9; Tennessee 2. Missouri 39; Iowa l3.
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 56% to win. Wisconsin won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Iowa–Wisconsin gameWisconsin leads 49–48–2 in 99 meetings, counting the 80 since this game.
| 2025 | Iowa 37, Wisconsin 0 | |
| 2024 | Iowa 42, Wisconsin 10 | |
| 2023 | Iowa 15, Wisconsin 6 | |
| 2022 | Iowa 24, Wisconsin 10 | |
| 2021 | Wisconsin 27, Iowa 7 | |
| 2020 | Iowa 28, Wisconsin 7 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gameat PurdueOct. 25, 1941
- SeasonIowa in 1941
- ProgramIowa history and records
Wisconsin
- Next gamevs. IndianaOct. 25, 1941
- SeasonWisconsin in 1941
- ProgramWisconsin history and records

