Illinois at Iowa

Saturday, November 21, 1903

Iowa beat Illinois 12–⁠0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–⁠2.

AwayIllinois8–⁠6 in 1903
0
HomeIowa9–⁠2 in 1903
12

FinalHigh 39°F, low 24°F

In the newspapers

  • The Bisbee daily review's story: THE FOOTBALL SCORES MADE ON VARIOUS GRIDIR0NS YESTERDAY

    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 The Indianapolis journal's story: Iowa Defeated Illinois.

    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.

Illinois leads 39–⁠38–⁠2 in 79 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Iowa 15, Illinois 13
2022Illinois 9, Iowa 6
2021Iowa 33, Illinois 23
2020Iowa 35, Illinois 21
2019Iowa 19, Illinois 10
2018Iowa 63, Illinois 0

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