Northwestern at Illinois

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 24, 1957, page 1

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  Illinois Hands Wildcats Ninth Straight Defeat CHAMPAIGN. Ill, Nov. % R.-Fullback Ray Nitschke sped “a yards for one touch down, fumbled to another. and plunged for a third as Illinois anchored Northwestern with a winless season. 27–⁠0. in a Big Ten football finale today. The smallest Memorial Sta dium throng since war years, 27,0l7. watched the Illini strike for two first-quarter touch downs. one in the third and another in the fourth to doom the Wildcats to their ninth consecutive loss Of the year. 1t was the first winless. tieless Northwestern season in modern history. The 1855 Wildcats lost eight. but tied Illinois, TT, in the last game Of that season. Nitschke’s heroics led the II lini to their first home triumph over Northwestern in nine CAM paign meetings since 1928. Nitschke streaked “a yards

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Illinois leads 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.