Illinois at Chicago

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1905, page 61

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  OVERWHELMED ILLINOIS. At No Time Was Chicago’s Goal in Danger. CHICAGO, H., November 1s.-Chicago University overwhelmed the University of Illinois in today’s annual foot ball game, winning by score of A to 0. Michigan University recently defeated Illinois. 33 to 0. At no time during the contest was the Chi cago goal threatened, and Illinois had the bah only for a short time during the game. Eckersoll kicked FIVE goals from the field, scored a touchdown after a 20-yard run and repeatedly made long runs for Chicago. Bezdek Catlin Williamson, Ferguson and Hitchcock were Chicagos chief ground gamers. Illinois was not able at any stage of the game to keep Chicago on the defensive or to hold the ball when 1t came into posses sion. The second half brought out many substitutes, and this part of the game was marked by frequent exchanges Of punts and by fumhlug. The line-up:

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  The Pacific commercial advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, November 19, 1905, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1S-The football score of the big games played today follow: Harvard dartmouth s. Yale 23-Princeton A. Columbia 12-Cornell 6. Annapolis Academy 22-Virginia 0. West Point 34-Trinity 0. Minnesota 35-NebraSga 0. Chicago 44-Illinois 0. Michigan 12-Wisconsin 0. During the game at Ann Arbor a. portion of the grand stand gave way, but no serious injury was suffered.

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.

Illinois leads 22–⁠18–⁠3 in 43 meetings, counting the 34 since this game.