Washington at Illinois

Saturday, October 21, 1950

Illinois beat No. 10 Washington 20–⁠13. It was their first meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 1–⁠0.

Away10Washington8–⁠2 in 1950
13
HomeIllinois7–⁠2 in 1950
20

FinalHigh 74°F, low 43°FAttendance 35,930

In the newspapers

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, October 27, 1950, page 1

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    FOOTBALL ROUNDUP LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27-iR-TWo slightly furnished Titans of the Pa cific Coast Conference. Stanford and Washington, provide the top game in the Rose Bowl scramble this weekend and its appears the decision could go either way. They play at Palo Alto tomorrow. Stanford can postpone for another year any Rose, Bowl plans it might have if it loses, and Washington will remain a strong threat if it wins. Rose Bowl Race Stanford fell out Of the unbeaten ranks, and more vital, lost a conference game to the University Of California at Los Angeles last week, 21–⁠7. Washington also lost its first game, to Illinois, but the hard fought 20–⁠13 setback to Illinois was not a conference game and doesn’t count in the Rose Bowl race. The league-leading offensive machine from Seattle, in addition to playing on Stanford’s home grounds, will be further handicapped by the absence of its star left end, Fritz Apking, suspended for a week for a training infraction. His replacement, Bud Olsen, added worries for Coach HOWE Odell when he broke bone in his foot two days ago. stanford Handicapped Stanford likewise may be handicapped severely if its first two right ends, Bruce Van Alstyone and Bob Scott, remain on the injured list. California, the vests lone representative in the top 10 AP-poll list voted No. 5-draws its fifth easy touch of the campaign in non-conference st. Mary’s. California; single win over a so-called major foe, Southern California, was close -13-7-but use has yet to win q game. UCLA Meets Purdue Coach Red Saunders UCLA team still a dark horse threat with one conference loss to Washington, in vades Big Ten territory to play Purdue. And in other conference engage ments, use entertains even UNI luckier Oregon, Washington State

  • The Evening star's story: Saturdays Grid Stars

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 23, 1950, page 21 (results column)

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    Saturdays Grid Stars BOB ZASTROW, Navy–PaSSeo and ran Navy to a 27–⁠14 victory over Southern California, scoring two touchdoWns. DICK DOYNE, Gained 1853 yards, scored one touchdown in Lehigh’s 1914 upset of Dart mouth. VITO PARILLI, Kentucky-His passing scored one touchdown. set up three others in 34–⁠7 victory over Villanova. CHARLEY ORTMANN, Michiean-Passed for one touchdown ran and passed to set up two others in 26–⁠13 win over Wis consin. BOB REYNOLDS, Nebraska Ran 10, 26 and AZ yards for touch downs in 1910 victory over Penn State. ERNIE STOCKERT, UCLA- Caught two touchdown passes in alt upset over Stanford. DICK RAKLOVITS, Illinois Made numerous long gains, scored two touchdoWns in 20–⁠13 win over Washington. BOBBY ROBERTSON, Indiana Dashed 83 yards for touch down, ran up 1875 yards in 18 tries in leading 20–⁠7 win over Notre Dame. BERNIE CUSTIS, Syracuse Scored two touchdoWns, completed II passes. one for a touchdown, ir 1927 win over Holy Cross. RUFUS BARKLEY, Virginia Passed for two touchdoWns in Cavalier rally that beat VMI, 26–⁠13. Al KOZAR, Tennessee–Scored two touchdowns, one in last minutes, to beat Alabama, 14–⁠9. KYLE ROTE, Southern Methodist-Scored two touchdowns, set up another in 1921 victory over Rice. BYRON TOWNSEND, Texas Scored two touchdowns, one in last period, to give Texas 1914 win over Arkansas. LARRY ISBELL. Baylor-Passeo for one touchdown, set up two others in 26–⁠12 triumph ovel Texas Tech. LOREN BROADUS, Florida Received first touchdown pass OF IA yards, ran 81 yards for Florida s winning touchdown, carried bal eight times for 109 yards in 3l-2T victory over Vanderbilt. ED MOONEY, North Carolina State-Scored two touchdowns ir 1913 victory over Maryland. LARRY SPENCER, Wake Forest Intercepted pass and ran 8; yards to touchdown in 1870 win over George Washington. DICK FLOWERS, Northwestern Passed to three touchdowns in 1928 win over Pittsburgh. TOM POWERS, Duke-Scoreo all six touchdowns as Duke beat Richmond. 41–⁠0. Powers caught four passes for 180 yards and three touchdoWns.

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)

Illinois 58% to win. Illinois pulled the upset. Elo’s favorite won.

Washington leads 8–⁠4 in 12 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Washington 42, Illinois 25
2014Washington 44, Illinois 19
2013Washington 34, Illinois 24
1972Washington 31, Illinois 11
1971Washington 52, Illinois 14
1963Illinois 17, Washington 7Rose Bowl

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