Northwestern at Illinois

• 

  The Cairo bulletin, Cairo, Ill., November 19, 1911, page 1

  Read the text

  ILLINOIS BEATS NORTHWESTERN Champaign Boys Defeat Those From Evanston By 27 To Is Score Champaign, ILL.,, Nov. 1S.--The University of Illinois defeated North western today 27 to 13 The purple team started out In whirIwInd fashion but the Illinois came back strong and won by hard playing. Capt. Roberts did not play, Rowe taking his place, Hall, the Illinois quarter back, was the star of the game He handled forward passes in perfect style and his punting was puzzle to the purple team. North western scored on two fumbles and on a drop kick The field was in good condition after the recent rain and ideal weather brought goodacrowd A hundre1 rooters came down from Evanston to support the defeated team The purple scored first IN the inftial period when Linn dropped a field goal after long march by the Methodsts who swept Illinois or their feet Illinois quickly came back, how ever, scoring three touch downs In the second quarter Halls long run and a clever pass TO Carter resulted in the first score. Rowe kicked the ball over for the second after the Illinois backs had made good games. Halls long return of a punt followed by Dillon’s thirty yard sprint aimed the thirc touch down Score: Illinois Is; Northwestern g. Woolston started the second half by kicking the ball TO North Westerns ten yard line. The ball was returned five yards and Reese carried 1t ten yards more througs center After Hall and Linn had punted several times. an attempt TO gain ground, Betting made a successful field goal from the twenty-five yard line. Hall fumbled, trying to punt and the purple recovered the ball on five yards, Pierce crossing the line for a touch down. Linn failed to kick goal.

• 

  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, November 19, 1911, page 13

  Read the text

  ILLINOIS DEFEATED NORTHWESTERN TEAM Winners Given Big Scare in Early Period Of Play, Whsn Visi- fors SeorSd rouehdowp limited Press Leased Wire Service] URBANA, Ill. Nov 1S.-Northwest ern went down to defeat before the Illini this afternoon. but not before the purple had given the local team the biggest scare 1t has experienced for some time. The final score: Northwestern 10; Illinois 27-does not tell the story of the game battle waged by the visitors. Five minutes after the kickoff, the purple had an nexed a field goal after walking all over the Illini eleven. Then the Tocal team rallied and banged the held up with the purple, scoring two goais in FIVE minutes play The purple scored their two touchdowns on flukes by Illini, but not until after the local team had scored four touch downs and goal from the held Only one incident marred the game and Mat was the withdrawal from the game by field officials OF McPherrin. left tackle on the North western team, for slugging. The pur’ Pile team was penalized half distance to their goal for the same offense.

• 

  Rock Island Argus, Illinois, November 20, 1911, page 3 (results column)

  Read the text

  Football Saturday LOCAL. LOCAL. Rock Island, IA; Moline, IL. Davenport, 80; Keokuk, 0. Moline Illini, 12; Coulon’s Athletics, ). WEST. Chicago, 6; Cornell, o. Wisconsin, 6; Minnesota, 6. Illinois. 27; Northwestern, 13. Michigan, IL; Pennsylvania, 9. Purdue, 80; Rose Poly. 6. Iowa, 0; Ames, 8. Nebraska, %; Kansas, 0. Ohio State. o; Oberlin, 0. Cornell, 40; Coe. 0. Knox, 0; Beloit. 0. Case, 5; Buchtel, 0. Butler, 8; De Pauw, o. Reserve, 16: Carnegie Tech, O. Washington, 6; Drake, 6. st. Louis, 5; Missouri, 0. Mount Union, %; Hiram, o. Kansas Aggies, 3; Arkansas, 0. Marquette, AZ; Creighton, II. Loyola, 16; Dixon, II. Cincinnati, IL; Miami, 0. Lombard, 80; Bradley Tech, 0. Colorado College, II; Mines, 0. Lake Forest, 6; Monmouth, 0. Olivet, 5; Albion, 0. Colorado, 9; Utah, 0. Otterbein, 6; Wesleyan, 5. Washington, %; Oregon, 8. Denver University. 6; Wyoming, 0. EAST. Princeton, 6; Yale, 3. Harvard, 5 Dartmouth, 3. Navy, 0; Penn State, 0. Army, 12; Colgate, G. Brown, s; Vermont, 0. Syracuse, 12; Carlisle, II. Williams, 8; Amherst, 0. Pittsburgh, 12; w. and J., O. Trinity, “a; Haverford. 6. Swarthmore, IS; Dickinson. 0. Lehigh, s; Franklin and Marshall, 0. Bucknell. 90; Muhlenburg, 3. SOUTH. Georgetown, 8; Virginia, 0. Johns Hopkins, II; ST Johns, o. Vanderbilt, 21; Mississippi, 0. Swanee, g; Alabama, 0. Pennsylvania, IL; Kentucky, 5. North Carolina, 4 w and l., 0. Virginia Military, 80; Catholic T., 0. Georgia, 8; Georgia Tech, 0. Davidson, 10; South Carolina, O.. Richmond, II; Roanoke, 5. Bingham, 4S; Chattanooga, 0. Southwestern, Is; Louisiana, 6. Texas, 18; Auburn, 3. Mercer, 20; Clemson, 6. PREPARATORY. Oak Park, “a; Hyde Park, o. EnglewOod, 3; University High, o. Lane, 10; Wendell Phillips. 0. Lake, 21; Lake View, 0. Lane Minors, 8: st. Phillips, o. Bowen. %; High Minors. 6. Crane, 12; Oak Park Minors, 3.

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 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 105 since this game.