Wisconsin at Northwestern

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 2, 1944, page 4

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  SURPRISES AND Up5ET5 ON GRiDIR0N If a centipede had crawled across a map of the United States on Saturday everyone of its hundred legs would have touched a point where a football surprise took place and upsets were as numerous as ants at Firemen’s picnic. North Carolina Pre-flight stunned the Navy, 21–⁠14. Pennsylvania, scoring in the first IS seconds, spilled Duke, 18–⁠7. Wisconsin tripped Northwestern, 7–⁠6.

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 1, 1944, page 14

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  Wisconsin Freshman Beats Wildcats, 7–⁠6 EVANSTON, Ill, Sept 80 GNS)The accurate toe of Earl jug Grard today the deciding factor Wisconsin scored stunning upset highly favored Northwestern to Grard kicked after touchdown in the third had spanked

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.

Wisconsin leads 62–⁠37–⁠4 in 103 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.