Indiana at Iowa

Saturday, October 24, 1953

Iowa beat Indiana 19–⁠13. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Iowa led the series 11–⁠10–⁠4.

AwayIndiana2–⁠7 in 1953
13
HomeIowa5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1953
19

FinalAttendance 50,129

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Late Iowa Pass Wins Over Indiana, 1913

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 72

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    Late Iowa Pass Wins Over Indiana, 1913 IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. “a Iowa broke out of a 1913 tie with a 24-yard touchdown pass late in the fourth period today for a 1913 victory over Indiana, to stir the Iowa Homecoming football crowd of 50,129. 1t was Iowa’s first Big Ten triumph in three games and the third straight conference loss for the HoosierS, who had hopes of at least a deadlock after scoring 13 points in the third period. The contest, some of which was watched by a Nation wide TV audience as part of a four game panorama program, turned into Iowa hands when Lou Matykiewicz tossed to End Frank Gillian, who made fancy catch in the left corner of the end zone with 4 minutes and 80 second to play. Iowa “ O 6 6–⁠19 Indiana O q IL 0–⁠13

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)

Iowa 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Iowa leads 46–⁠29–⁠4 in 79 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Indiana 20, Iowa 15
2021Iowa 34, Indiana 6
2018Iowa 42, Indiana 16
2015Iowa 35, Indiana 27
2014Iowa 45, Indiana 29
2012Indiana 24, Iowa 21

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