Indiana at Iowa
Saturday, October 24, 1953 Share
Iowa beat Indiana 19–13. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Iowa led the series 11–10–4.
FinalAttendance 50,129
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 72
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Indiana–Iowa gameIowa leads 46–29–4 in 79 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.
| 2025 | Indiana 20, Iowa 15 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 34, Indiana 6 | |
| 2018 | Iowa 42, Indiana 16 | |
| 2015 | Iowa 35, Indiana 27 | |
| 2014 | Iowa 45, Indiana 29 | |
| 2012 | Indiana 24, Iowa 21 |
Around this game
Indiana
- Next gamevs. MissouriOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonIndiana in 1953
- ProgramIndiana history and records
Iowa
- Next gameat WisconsinOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonIowa in 1953
- ProgramIowa history and records

