Indiana at Iowa
Saturday, October 20, 1945 Share
No. 8 Indiana beat Iowa 52–20. It was their 18th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 7–7–4.
FinalHigh 68°F, low 35°FAttendance 15,800
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 21, 1945, page 20
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Indiana Smothers Iowa For Third Loop Win IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 20.-Indiana sent Iowa reeling for count of So points today by the Hoosiers’ third Western Conference football victory, So to 20. The groggy Hawks, previously socked hard by Ohio State and Purdue on successive Saturdays, bounced back to score all their points in the final quarter. Actually, the game had been won long before by the dashing Hoosiers who ripped through to six first-half touchdowns and added two more in the third.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 22, 1945, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES Following are the final scores of leading football games played over the weekend Columbia, 31 Colgate, T. Penn State, 46; Bucllnell, ‘. Army, 55; Melville Raiders, B. Holy Cross, 25; Brown, 0. New London Subs, IS; Harvard, T. Illinois, 2; Wisconsin, (tie). Minnesota, 30; Northwestern, ‘. Purdue, 15; Ohio State, 1a Notre Dame, 39; Pittsburgh, g. Michigan State, 27; Wayne, ‘. Missouri, A. Kansas State, T. Indiana, 52: Iowa, 20. Louisiana State, 32; Georgia, 0. Alabama, 25; Tennessee, ‘. Virginia Tech, 21; Maryland, 13. William and Mary, 13; Virginia Military Institute, 9. Auburn, 20; Tulane, IA. North Carolina, 20; Cherry Point, A. Texas, 34; Arkansas, ‘. Miami (Ohio), 34; Ohio Univer- sity, 0. Iowa State, 27; Nebraska, ‘. Oklahoma, 39; Kansas, T. Tulsa, 40; Nevada, 0. North Dakota U, 20; North Da- kota State, 12. Vanderbilt, 19; Kentucky, 6. Oklahoma A & M, 46; Utah, 6. Colorado, 31; Colorado College, 0. Utah State, 13; Colorado A & M, Washington, IS; Oregon State, Southern California, 52; College of Pacific, 0. Oregon, 26; Washington State, 13. Idaho, 46; Montana, o. Southern Methodist, 21 Rice, 18 Texas Christian, IS; Texas A & M, 12. Louisiana Tech, 29; Southwestern, IA. Corpus Christi Naval Air, 30; Pensacola Naval Air, 0. Navy, 20; Georgia Tech, 69. Baylor, ?; Texas, ‘ (tie). Sundays Scores Villanova, IA; Detroit, 0. St. Marys (CalifD, 58; McClel- Ian Field, 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.
On the newsreel
- THE WORLD OF SPORTSIndiana drops in at Iowa and proceeds to give Hawks a 52 to 20 going over. The Hoosiers only case up in the last quarter and Iowa avoids a shut-out
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Indiana 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Indiana–Iowa gameIowa leads 46–29–4 in 79 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.
| 2025 | Indiana 20, Iowa 15 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 34, Indiana 6 | |
| 2018 | Iowa 42, Indiana 16 | |
| 2015 | Iowa 35, Indiana 27 | |
| 2014 | Iowa 45, Indiana 29 | |
| 2012 | Indiana 24, Iowa 21 |
Around this game
Indiana
- Next gamevs. TulsaOct. 27, 1945
- SeasonIndiana in 1945
- ProgramIndiana history and records
Iowa
- Next gameat Notre DameOct. 27, 1945
- SeasonIowa in 1945
- ProgramIowa history and records

