Indiana at Northwestern

Saturday, October 31, 1959

No. 2 Northwestern beat Indiana 30–⁠13. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Northwestern led the series 19–⁠14–⁠1.

AwayIndiana4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1959
13
Home2Northwestern6–⁠3 in 1959
30

FinalHigh 50°F, low 47°F, 0.32 in. of rainAttendance 41,296

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: |Unbeoten Northwestern |WoIIops Indiono, Bob

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1959, page 1

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    |Unbeoten Northwestern |WoIIops Indiono, Bob EVANSTON, H., Oct. 81 AP).-Halfback Ron Burton, sidelined for two weeks with an injured ankle, teamed with Fullback Mike Stock to lead undefeated Northwestern to a 30–⁠13 victory over Indiana today before q Homecoming crowd of Al ,296. The victory enabled North western. the Nations No. 2 team, to hold its conference lead and take another step toward its first Big Ten cham pionship in % years. Burton scored q pair of touchdowns within a minute and 7 seconds in the second quarter to wipe out a TO In diana lead. Stock ripped of two touchdowns and booted a field goal In the second half Stock, who also played a tremendous game on defense. added three conversions to fin ish the day with Is points. Indiana couldn’t cope with Northwestern’s quick scoring ability. Three Of Northwest ern’s touchdowns were long gamers including Burton’s So yard punt return which broke a TT tie and put the Wildcats

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)

Northwestern 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Northwestern leads 47–⁠37–⁠1 in 85 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Indiana 29, Northwestern 23
2024Indiana 41, Northwestern 24
2019Indiana 34, Northwestern 3
2016Northwestern 24, Indiana 14
2012Northwestern 44, Indiana 29
2011Northwestern 59, Indiana 38

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