Illinois at Iowa
Saturday, November 21, 1903 Share
Iowa beat Illinois 12–0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–2.
FinalHigh 39°F, low 24°F
In the newspapers

Bisbee daily review, November 22, 1903, page 16
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THE FOOTBALL SCORES MADE ON VARIOUS GRIDIR0NS YESTERDAY DetrOit-Marquette College (Mii. waukee). 0: Beloit. H. Iowa City-iowa. 12; Illinois, 0. Charleston. nI-Eastern Illinois 0: Rose Polytechnic, O. Charlottesville, Ill.-Wabash. 10; Depaw, 0. Chicago-Wisconsin. 6; Northwest. ern, 6. Annapolis-Virginia Polytechnic in- stitute, Ii; Navy, o. New Orleans-University of Missis- sippi. II; Louisiana State University, O. Charlotte. N C.-Clemsor. 24: Day idson, o. St. Louis-Washingto University, g: Cincinnati University, II.

The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 22, 1903, page 6
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Iowa Defeated Illinois. IOWA CITY, Nov. 2.-Iowa gave 3llinois’s football team a complete surprise to-day. winning the game II to o. Iowa. showed splendid offense and defense at cri9cal moments. Johns Colthard, Wetters. sGriffith, Allen, Buckley and MCGOWAN were Iowas stars. Huntoon, Mcknight and Iannum were the best ground gamers for illinois.
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 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Illinois–Iowa gameIllinois leads 39–38–2 in 79 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.
| 2023 | Iowa 15, Illinois 13 | |
| 2022 | Illinois 9, Iowa 6 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 33, Illinois 23 | |
| 2020 | Iowa 35, Illinois 21 | |
| 2019 | Iowa 19, Illinois 10 | |
| 2018 | Iowa 63, Illinois 0 |
Around this game
Illinois
- Next gameat NebraskaNov. 26, 1903
- SeasonIllinois in 1903
- ProgramIllinois history and records
Iowa
- Next gameat Washington St. LouisNov. 26, 1903
- SeasonIowa in 1903
- ProgramIowa history and records

