Illinois at Northwestern

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 21, 1943, page 28

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  Northwestern Gains Third in League by Trimming Illinois EVANSTON, ILL.,, Nov. 20.-Northwestern, beaten only by Michigan and Notre Dame, ended success full football campaign today by wal loping Illinois youngsters, So to 6, before $4,000 spectators in Dyche Stadium. The Wildcats scored their sixth victory in easy fashion, rambling Al yards or more for seven of their touchdowns and connecting for the eighth on a slick 38-yard pass play engineered by couple of third stringers, Bin Adler and Bernard Schadler. But the Illini, pounded into their fourth conference defeat in six games, had reason to cheer in the third period when little Eddie Bray snagged Northwestern kickoff ano ran 80 yards to score in the most spectacular play of the day. Northwestern ended its league &C. ton in third place behind the new Big Ten co-champions, Purdue anc Michigan. The Wildcats amassed 4l6 yard! rushing and 1913 passing. to Illinois l23 rushing and 25 passing They also tailed 18 first downs to Hi. noiS’ 6.

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 21, 1943, page 7

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  Northwestern Wallops Illinois Club, So : 6 EVANSTON. Ill, Nov. 20. --(P)- Northwestern, beaten only by Mich igan and Notre Dame, ended successful football campaign today s,y waIloping Illinois youngsters, 50 to 6 before 1000 spectators. The Wildcats scored their sixth victory IN easy fashion, rambling Al yards Or more for seven of their touch downs and connecting for the eighth on slick 38 yard pass play engineered by a couple OF third stringers, Bill Adler and Bernard Schadler. But the Illinois, pounded into their fourth conference defeat in six games, had reason to cheer in the third period when little Eddie Bray snagged a Northwestern kick off and ran 80 yards to score in the most spectacular play of the day.

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  The Nome nugget, November 22, 1943, page 6 (results column)

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  G-s l, LOOT BALL } SCORES Iowa 33, Nebraska 13. Rice 13, Texas Christian 6. Dartmouth 42, Princeton 13. Marquette 6, Great Lakes 25. Iowa Seahawks 13, Notre Dame IA. Penn State IA, Pitt 0. Purdue ?, Indiana 0. Villanova 34, Temple ‘. Rutgers 2, Lafayette g. Ohio State ‘, Michigan 45. Fort Riley 10, Camp Grant 6. Illinois 6, Northwestern 53. Duke 27, North Carolina 6. Brown 0, Army 59. Fort Riley, Kansas Centaurs 10, Camp Grant 6. (Mid-West Army football championship. Army 59, Brown 0. Notre Dame IA, Iowa Pre- Flight 13. Colgate Al, Columbia 0. Penn State IA, Pittsburgh 0 Villanova 34, Temple 2. Duke 27, North Carolina 6. Georgia 41, Clemson 6. Southwestern 2, Arkansas A. & M. 0. Texas Tech 2, Southern Metho- dist 6. Michigan 45, Ohio State 2. Minnesota 25, Wisconsin 13. Purdue 2, Indiana 0. Northwestern 53, Illinois 6. Iowa 33, Nebraska 13. Great Lakes 25. Marquette 6. Ft. Riley 10, Camp Grant 6. Kansas ‘, Missoula 6.

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 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.