Iowa at Illinois

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 9, 1941, page 1

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  Farmer Shines As Iowa Wins CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Nov. g. Iowa defeated Illinois here today 21–⁠0. Tom Farmer, Iowa’s junior half back, led the Hawkeyes to their victory. Farmer passed to Bill Parker. Iowa left end. for two touchdowns, plunged over himself for third score and place kicked 3 points after touchdown. Iowa’S line outweighed the Illini by more than 10 pounds to a man and this proved a vital factor Jimmy Smith and Liz Astroth led the Illini attack which begged down three times while in scoring territory. The best chance came in the second quarter when George Milosevich ended the opportunity by dropping a pass on the 15-yard line.

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.

Illinois leads 39–⁠38–⁠2 in 79 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.