Wisconsin at Northwestern

Saturday, October 5, 1946

Northwestern beat Wisconsin 28–⁠0. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 16–⁠12–⁠3.

AwayWisconsin4–⁠5 in 1946
0
HomeNorthwestern4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1946
28

FinalHigh 86°F, low 54°FAttendance 45,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL d SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 7, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL d SCORES Scores of. leading football games played last Saturday afternoon are as follows; UCLA 39; Washington 13. Oregon IA; California l3. Washington State 32, Idaho 0. Ohio State 21; use O. Stanford 33; San Francisco ‘. Oregon State 35; Portland 0. Nevada 33; Santa Clara ‘. Calf. Poly 2l; San Diego State l3. Willamette 26; Brit. Columbia 13. Cen. Washington 2l; Whitworth 2 Columbia 23; Navy IA. Dartmouth 20; Syracuse IA Pennsylvania 66; Lafayette 0. Army 46; Cornell 21. Yale 27; Colgate 6. Princeton 33; Brown 12. Harvard 49; Tufts 0. Holy Cross l6; Detroit IA. Penn State AS; Bucknell 6. Boston College 34; Michigan s 20. Indiana 21 Minnesota 10. Northwestern 28; Wisconsin 0. Notre Dame 33 Pittsburgh 0. Nebraska 31; Kansas State 0. Kansas IA; Wichita T. Illinois 43; Purdue ‘.

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)

Northwestern 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 62–⁠37–⁠4 in 103 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Wisconsin 23, Northwestern 3
2023Northwestern 24, Wisconsin 10
2022Wisconsin 42, Northwestern 7
2021Wisconsin 35, Northwestern 7
2020Northwestern 17, Wisconsin 7
2019Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 15

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