Wisconsin at Ohio State

Saturday, November 8, 1941

No. 20 Ohio State beat Wisconsin 46–⁠34. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Ohio State led the series 7–⁠4–⁠2.

AwayWisconsin3–⁠5 in 1941
34
Home20Ohio State6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1941
46

FinalHigh 40°F, low 33°F, 0.03 in. of rainAttendance 58,519

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Badgers Harder Adds To Big Ten Scoring Lead in Losing Gets Is Points to Run Total to rs as Bucks Take 46-34 Suggest

    Evening star, November 11, 1941, page 15

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    Badgers Harder Adds To Big Ten Scoring Lead in Losing Gets Is Points to Run Total to rs as Bucks Take 46–⁠34 Suggest CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-That 46-to- “a Suggest in which Ohio State and Wisconsin engaged last week, with the Buckeyes winning, was gold mine for young Mr.. Pat Harder Of the Badgers, who aspires to the Big Ten grid scoring championship, but 1t also was a grand opportunity for one of Pats competitors. Harder collected 13 Of Wisconsin, s points to run his seasons total to As. Meanwhile Jack Graf of Ohio State, who previously had made only one touchdown, scored three against the Badgers for a 24-point total and a tie for second place with Northwest ern’s Otto Graham. Harder’s points have been COM piled in four games on six touch down. six points after touchdown and and one field goal. Graf, in two games, has four touchdowns and Graham, who has appeared in five contests, also has four touch downs. Three players are tied for the next position with 18 points apiece. They are: Don Clawson, Northwestern fullback; Billy Hillenbrand, Indianas sensational halfback, and Dave Schreiner, Wisconsin’s great pass | catching end.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BAIL @ R{3SW{5 IFS Mr

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 10, 1941, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BAIL @ R{3SW{5 IFS Mr The following are final scores If principal football games played last Saturday afternoon. Fordham O. Pittsburgh l3. Missouri 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Detroit T; Marquette 6. Cornell 21: Yale 2. West Virginia 21; Kansas o. Notre Dame 20; Navy 13. Penn State 34; Syracuse l9. Minnesota 9; Nebraska 0. Lafayette 16; Rutgers 0. Harvard 20; Army 6. Dartmouth 20; Princeton 13. Temple IA; Villanova 13. Holy Cross 13; Brown 0. Boston College 26; Wake Forest 6. Ohio State 46; Wisconsin 34. Duke 56; Davidson 0. Iowa 21; Illinois O. Georgia 19; Florida 3. Georgetown 26; Maryland 0. Pennsylvania 19; Columbia 16. Michigan State 0; Purdue 0. Kansas State 3; South Carolina 0. Virginia Tech IA; North Caro- lima State 13. s.-... .s. Alabama 19; Tulane IA Virginia 27; Washington and Lee T. Georgia Tech 20; Kentucky 13. Cincinnati 20; Carnegie Tech 0. Northwestern 20; Indiana l4. Mississippi State IA; Auburn ‘. Tennessee 28; Howard G. Vanderbilt 20; SeWanee O. Stanford 13; Southern Califor- mia 0. University of Washington 13, California 6. UCLA 0; Oregon State 19. Washington State 26; Idaho 0.

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)

Ohio State 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Ohio State leads 64–⁠18–⁠5 in 87 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Ohio State 34, Wisconsin 0
2023Ohio State 24, Wisconsin 10
2022Ohio State 52, Wisconsin 21
2019Ohio State 34, Wisconsin 21Big Ten Championship Game
2019Ohio State 38, Wisconsin 7
2017Ohio State 27, Wisconsin 21Big Ten Championship Game

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