Iowa at Indiana

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1942, page 34

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  Iowa Downs Indiana AS Farmer Barely Tops Hi||enbrand Missed Conversion Try Loses lab Duel for Star Of Hoosiers A>S tiit hSsOSidtcu IcSs. BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. “a Tom Farmer and Billy Hillenbrand engaged in a pitching, running and kicking duel here today and Farmer won-by the narrow margin of a point after touchdown-to give Iowa a 14–⁠13 decision over Indiana in a Western Conference football thriller. 1t was Farmer VS.. Hillenbrand all afternoon and the Hoosier home coming crowd of $4,000 probably was agreed, after the brilliant display OF offensive fireworks had ended, that the score might as we’ll have read: Farmer, IA, Hillenbrand, l3. Farmer, a 185-pound senior, helped set up the first Hawkeye score and then handed the ball to Charles Uknes for the touchdown jaunt in the second quarter. In the third period he pitched a perfect strike to Jim Keane of Bellaire, Ohio, for the second Iowa touchdown and, what’s more. added the extra point that proved to be the margin OF victory. Meanwhile, Hillenbrand was keep ing the Hoosiers In the game and, as it turned out, he was both the hero and the goat of the Hoosier at tack. He tipped pass to Bob Cowan for the first Indiana touchdown, added the extra point and then scored a second touchdown, but missed the important point. The Hoosiers were roaring back in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter as the clock licked away the precious minutes, but Hillenbrand fumbled at crucial moment and Iowa recovered to stall the Indiana attack. The Hoosiers made one more stab, but time ran out.

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Iowa leads 46–⁠29–⁠4 in 79 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.