Michigan at Northwestern

Saturday, October 15, 1949

Northwestern beat No. 7 Michigan 21–⁠20. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Michigan led the series 15–⁠7–⁠2.

Away7Michigan6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1949
20
HomeNorthwestern4–⁠5 in 1949
21

FinalHigh 59°F, low 40°FAttendance 54,816

In the newspapers

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 17, 1949, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES Final scores of football games played over the weekend are as fol- lows: Stanford 40; Washington 0. Washington State 35; Idaho 13. Oregon State 63; Montana IA. Oregon 42; Colorado IA. College of Idaho 33; Eastern Ore gon College 25. Lewis & Clark 20; Linfield 2. Pacific University 33; Whitman 27. Eastern Washington 27; Whit worth 20. Pacific Lutheran 25; St. Martins 20 Western Washington 21; British Columbia 6. Southern Oregon College 55; Ore gon Tech (Klamath Falls) IA. College of Pacific 75; Portland University 20. Puget Sound Jayvees 2; Fort Lawton 0. Washington State Frosh 5l; Mon- tana Frosh 0. Maine 12; Connecticut 12. Amherst 19; Colby 6. l Washington est. Louis) 12; West ern Michigan 0. Minnesota 27 Ohio State O. Michigan State 42; William Mary 13. Dartmouth 27; Colgate IS. Duquesne 40, Holy Cross IA. Army 54; Harvard IA. North Carolina 28; Wake Forest IA. Penn 27; Columbia ‘. Duke IA; North Carolina State 13 Cornell 48; Yale IA. Iowa State IS; Kansas State 18. Notre Dame 46; Tulane T. Wisconsin AS; Navy 13. Iowa 35; Indiana g. Missouri 27 Illinois 20. Franklin and Marshall IA Car negie Tech IA. l Western Maryland 39; Washing. ton College (Md) 6. Coast Guard 21; Kingspoint IA. Williams 33; Bowdoin o. Lehigh 33; Gettysburg 20 Virginia 27; Washington and Le, 7. Princeton 27; Brown IA. Nebraska 2; Penn State g. Massachusetts 32; Rhode Islant 19 Pittsburgh 35; Miami (OhiO 26 Georgia Tech 35; Auburn 2l. Northwestern 21; Michigan 20. Alabama T; Tennessee 2. Syracuse 21; Rutgers g. Fordham 33; Scranton 13. Cincinnati 19; Mississippi State ( Virginia Military IA; Richmond C Wyoming 27; Utah State 0. George Washington 24; Virgini Polytechnic IA. Texas 27; Arkansas IA. Oklahoma 48; Kansas 26. Texas Christian 28; Texas Aggie 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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Michigan 62% to win. Northwestern pulled the upset.

Michigan leads 61–⁠15–⁠2 in 78 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Michigan 24, Northwestern 22
2024Michigan 50, Northwestern 6
2021Michigan 33, Northwestern 7
2018Michigan 20, Northwestern 17
2015Michigan 38, Northwestern 0
2014Michigan 10, Northwestern 9

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