Illinois at Northwestern

Saturday, October 20, 1900

Illinois and Northwestern tied 0–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 2–⁠1–⁠3.

AwayIllinois7–⁠3–⁠2 in 1900
0
HomeNorthwestern7–⁠2–⁠3 in 1900
0

FinalHigh 75°F, low 43°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening times-Republican's story: IOWA BADLY NORg|[D||' Fsot Ball Games in Sister States Resuit In Defeat Of Hawk eye Teama Grinnell Makes a Game Struggle Against Great Odds at Minneapolis But Gophers Win by Big Score Drake and Upper Iowa De. feated- Summaries

    Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, October 22, 1900, page 1 (results column)

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    IOWA BADLY NORg|[D||‘ Fsot Ball Games in Sister States Resuit In Defeat Of Hawk eye Teama Grinnell Makes a Game Struggle Against Great Odds at Minneapolis But Gophers Win by Big Score Drake and Upper Iowa De. feated- Summaries Iowa foot ball teams did not fare we’ll in the games with sister states saturday. Grinnell went down to defeat at Minneapolis by score of 26 to o. But the wearers OF the scarlet and black made brave struggle against great odds and altho unable to score made the Gophers realize they were in fast company. Drake also met defeat at the hands of the Nebraskans, but held the score down to 8 to 0 and kept the ball in Nebraska territory most Of the time. Upper Iowa was defeated by wisconsin by GA to o. OF the games in which Iowa was not interested az player, that of Brown University vs.. Chicago, at Chicago, probably had most interest for Iowa sportsmen. The score stood II to s for Brown and the game is described as a poor but exciting exhibition OF foot ball playing. Following is a summary OF Saturdays scores and some of the more important points Of those games OF greatest interest to Iowa readers: + Chicago-.Srown III, Chicago 8. Ithaca Cornell “A. Union 0. Easton, Pa.-Prlnceton S. Lafayette 0. West Point – Harvard 80, West Point o. New Haven, Conn.-Yale IS, Wesley an o. Ann Arbor. Mich. Michigan II, Purdue 6. Annapolis Nd. = Naval cadets s. Georgetown 0. Cedar Falls, Iowa-state Normal 8. Cornell Qowa) 6. Terre Haute. Ind.-Rose Polytechnic 0, DePauw o. South Bend, Ind.-Notre Dame IS, Cincinnati University o. | Nebraska s. Drake 0. Cedar Rapids-Foot ball at Hopkinton; Lenox “a. Coe 0. Wisconsin 81, Upper Iowa Q. Minnesota 26, Grinnell o. Michigan II, Purdue 6. Pennsylvania 80, Columbia 0. Northwestern 0. Illinois 0. iowa City scrubs 10, Grinnell scrubs 6. simpson College 50. Des Moines Col llege o. | S. o.

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Northwestern 57% to win.

Illinois leads 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 113 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Illinois 20, Northwestern 13
2024Illinois 38, Northwestern 28
2023Northwestern 45, Illinois 43
2022Illinois 41, Northwestern 3
2021Illinois 47, Northwestern 14
2020Northwestern 28, Illinois 10

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