Willamette at Idaho
Saturday, October 25, 1941 Share
Idaho beat Willamette 33–6. It was their first meeting; after it, Idaho led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 45°F, low 40°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 28, 1941, page 17
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Idaho Sprouting Football Oats After Many Barren Years as Schmidt Handles Cu|tivotor and opened new paragraph before the coach even had a peek at his prospects. These were unimpressive. From the great losers of 40, graduaton took 16 lettermen and Schmidt had to build from the leftovers and a scanty crop of sophomores. There were 10000 people in the stands when Idaho opened against Utah. 1t was a small gathering by Big Ten standards, but to Moscow, recalling those empty seats, it was a real turnout. The Vandals lost to Utah and dropped their next start to Oregon, but scored in each tuSSle The third time out they crushed Gonzaga, 81 to they hadn’t even scored on this old rival for two seasons. Convincingly, then. they clamped a 10-to-0 defeat on Utah State, and last week smothered previously unbeaten Willamette, 33 to 6. Idaho fans are wondering about the razzle dazzle that was synonynous with Schmidt. Idaho is scoring on straight football, plus some for ward passing. you’ve got to have speed and

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 27, 1941, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT DA&& @ R3SWA IFS Ma The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: Oregon State O. Washington State 2. Stanford l3; University of Wash ington T. sF.E s Southern California 0; Califor- mia IA. Oregon T; UCLA IA. Willamette 6; Idaho 33 Harvard O.; Navy O. Boston College IA Georgetown Brown IS; Lafayette 0. Penn State 10; Lehigh 6. Pennsylvania 55: Maryland G. Wisconsin 27; Indiana 25. Purdue T; Iowa 6. Notre Dame 49; Illinois IA. :. Kansas 13; Iowa State o. 7 Kentucky IS; West Virginia 6. 2 Minnesota T; Michigan 0. s Dartmout T., Yale o. 2 Duke 27; Pitt 2. g Syracuse 49; Rutgers T, .Fordhain 2s; Texas Christian IA ,s Holy Cross l3; New York Uni- versity 0.i A a. r Cornell 2l; Colgate 2. ‘ a Army 13. Columbia 0. t@ E Wake Forest l3; North. Carolina 10. r. Northwestern IA; Ohio State ! SATURDAY NIGHT GAMES The following, are final scores oi games played. last Saturday night: Duquesne 3l;. Marquette l4 | Louisiana State 10; Florida T. Arizona 20; Arizona State I. SUNDAY GAMES Tho following are final scores Of games played Sunday afternoon: Portland University l3; Gonzaga l9. St. Mary’s 20: Loyola Of Los Angeles 13. N
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)
Idaho 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Willamette–Idaho gameIdaho leads 2–0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1949 | Idaho 79, Willamette 0 | |
| 1941 | Idaho 33, Willamette 6 |
Around this game
Willamette
- SeasonWillamette in 1941
- ProgramWillamette history and records
Idaho
- Next gameat Oregon StateNov. 1, 1941
- SeasonIdaho in 1941
- ProgramIdaho history and records
