Chicago at Wisconsin

Saturday, November 19, 1910

Wisconsin beat Chicago 10–⁠0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 8–⁠6–⁠1.

AwayChicago2–⁠5 in 1910
0
HomeWisconsin1–⁠2–⁠2 in 1910
10

FinalHigh 26°F, low 21°F

In the newspapers

  • The Grant County herald's story

    Grant County herald, Lancaster, Wis., November 23, 1910, page 5

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    A ten pound baoy girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs John Joyce Saturday afternoon. The body of Mrs. Thomas Dob son, formerly of this city was brought here from Bell Center for burial yes terday. Interment was made at Buck wheat Ridge Last Saturday was a notable day in football events. Wisconsin beat Chicago al Madison, 10 to 0 in a brilliant game, their only victory of the season. Michigan repeated their last years walloping of Minnesota, the champions of the west, at Ann Arbor to Q. Harvard and Yale went to 0 to Q tie, in the presence of a crowd of 35 600 people. Marquette beat Carroll college in a score of AZ to Improvements are being made at the Methodist church that will greatly improve the facilities of that instituton for accommodating the many pat rons Of socials, missionary teas and etc. The east end of the basement heretofore used as kitchen has been deepened about two and one-half feet and heightened about eight feet It’s dimensions are now about Al by 10 feet. A partition will be placed across the south end Of this room dividing it into two apartments one 3Ox19 feet and the other 14x19 feet in size, The larger will be used for a dining room and the other for kitchen. Minor improvements such as plastering and decorating the walls and installing steel ceiling will of course follow. The various changes will necessitate the removal of cellar stairway from the north to the south end Of the chapel above. H. w. Brown put in several days last week at good hard labor on his Animation farm, where he is building a trout pond and has put in a pipe line to convey water from big spring to Ills latin uUuS6s SSVSEdl uuuuE0u ISHL, by hydraulic ram. They got the ma chine set in 7-foot pit on Friday evening and all the pipe coupled up, but it failed to work properly and during the night the water froz8 in the pipes so that it had to be thawed, uncoupled and the water drawn off. and worst of all the pit filled up from a break in the dam and the machine had to be lifted out and the work all done over again. But persistence and hard work won in the end and Saturday afternoon they succeeded in max ing everything work beautifully. Brown says his next undertaking will be to sink a driven we’ll several hundred thousand feet if necessary, to supply water for domestic use at his cottage on Pine Knob, one Of the most delightful spots tn the country for summers outing.

  • The The Cairo bulletin's story: MADISON BEAT CHICAGO.

    The Cairo bulletin, Cairo, Ill., November 20, 1910, page 1

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    MADISON BEAT CHICAGO. Madison, Nov. 19-The Wisconsin football team astonished even tis most enthusiastic supporters this afternoon by defeating the University OF Chicago, 10 to 0. In game replete with Spectacular features. The Bal gers won strictly by old foot bali methods, while the Maroon men tried everything in the calendar, fail ing to gain on any play of tricky nature. Crawley and Young were the mountains of strength for Chicago, making the most downs, while Buser, Gillette and Murphy, the latter sub stitute at center, starred for Wis consin Eleventh hour switches in the badger lineup were chiefly responsible for the ability of the Cardinals to score, the heaviest line being placed on the right side to stop the rushes Of Crawley, Chicago’s right half Wisconsins first score was made in the second period. Just before time was called, following series of fine plunges, Buser was pushed five yards for touchdown. Preceding this the game was series OF kicking matches. The second half was marked by the frantic efforts of Chicago to gain on the Badgers, but only once Wis consin showed weakness. In the last period Gillette in two magnificent runs took the ball over for the second touchdown.

  • The Evening star's story: WISCONSIN A SURPRISE. Defeats Chicago in Game Replete With Spectacular Features.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 20, 1910, page 55

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    WISCONSIN A SURPRISE. Defeats Chicago in Game Replete With Spectacular Features. MADISON, Wis, November 19.-The Wisconsin foot ball team astonished even it’s most enthusiastic supporters this aft ernoon by defeating the University Of Chicago. 10 to 0. in game replete with spectacular features. The Badgers won on strictly old foot ball methods. while the Maroon warriors tried everything in the calendar, failing signally to gain on plays of trick nature. Crawley and Young were mountains of strength for Chicago making most of the downs. while Buser. Gillette and Murphy. the latter a substitute center. starred Tor Wisconsin. The Wisconsin goal was In danger only twice and the ball, was in Chicagos territory most Of the time,

  • The Vernon County censor's story

    Vernon County censor, Viroqua, Wis., November 23, 1910, page 4

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    Wisconsin university has been redeemed That is, the foot ball team won a signal victory from Chicago on Saturday last by defeating that famous team 10 to 0 On the same day Michigan and Minnesota university had a battle royal, Michigan coming off vic tnrious 6 to 0.

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)

Wisconsin 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 19–⁠16–⁠5 in 40 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.

Recent meetings
1937Wisconsin 27, Chicago 0
1936Chicago 7, Wisconsin 6
1935Chicago 13, Wisconsin 7
1933Wisconsin 0, Chicago 0
1932Wisconsin 18, Chicago 7
1931Wisconsin 12, Chicago 7

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