Navy at Northwestern
Saturday, October 20, 1951 Share
No. 18 Northwestern beat Navy 16–7. It was their second meeting; after it, Northwestern led the series 2–0.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 35°F, 0.04 in. of rainAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 22, 1951, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
FOOTBALL SCORES FAR WEST FAR WEST Illinois 27-Washington 20 Southern Cal 21-California IA Stanford 21-Santa Clara IA Washington State 26 - Oregon State 13 UCLA 41-Oregon 0 SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 20 - Texas A & M IA Oklahoma 33-Kansas 21 Rice 28-Southern Methodist 2 MIDWEST Northwestern 16-Navy 7 Michigan 21-Iowa 0 Notre Dame 33-Pittsburgh O Indiana 32-Ohio State 10. SOUTH LSU 7-Georgia 0 Kentucky 35-Villanova 13 Mississippi 25-Tulane 6 Virginia 34-VMI IA Duke 55-VPI 6 Georgia Tech 27-Auburn 2 EAST San Francisco 32-Fordham 26 Penn 28-Columbia 13 Princeton 60-Lafayette 7 Carnegie Tech 39-Allegheny 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.
On the newsreel
- FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS — N'WESTERN-NAVYAt Evanston, the unbeaten Wildcats keep winning skein intact by downing a determined Middie team, 16-7. Dick Alban is star for Northwestern, with two sensational plays
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)
Northwestern 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Navy–Northwestern gameNorthwestern leads 3–0 in three meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 2002 | Northwestern 49, Navy 40 | |
| 1951 | Northwestern 16, Navy 7 | |
| 1950 | Northwestern 22, Navy 0 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 27, 1951
- SeasonNavy in 1951
- ProgramNavy history and records
Northwestern
- Next gamevs. WisconsinOct. 27, 1951
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1951
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records