Marquette at Northwestern

Saturday, November 4, 1905

Northwestern beat Marquette 30–⁠5. It was their first meeting; after it, Northwestern led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayMarquette1–⁠3 in 1905
5
HomeNorthwestern8–⁠2–⁠1 in 1905
30

FinalHigh 51°F, low 35°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Minneapolis journal's story: NJ CORNACK'S men ANNEX A VICTORY Northwestern Defeats Marquette BY Score of 80 to 5-Latter's Strength a Surprise.

    The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., November 5, 1905, page 1

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    NJ CORNACK’S men ANNEX A VICTORY Northwestern Defeats Marquette BY Score of 80 to 5-Latter’s Strength a Surprise. Evanston, ILL.,, Nov. 4.-still nursing bruises from the Chicago game, McCormack g squad rolled up total Of thirty points on the Marquette college eleven of Milwaukee, but not until the visitors had crossed their goal line in the second half. The Marquette players sprung a surprise and stubbornly contested the gains Of the purple. McPherrin, Blair, Granberg and Reyn. olds did exceptional work for North western and the match was an exhibi. ton Of good football thruout. The Marquette touchdown was earned and was made after thirty yards of hard plugging thru the purple line. Mccormack was not disappointed at the showing Of his men and spoke highly Of the visitors. The lineup:

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 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Northwestern leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1934Northwestern 21, Marquette 12
1905Northwestern 30, Marquette 5

Around this game

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