Kentucky at Illinois
Saturday, October 4, 1913 Share
Illinois beat Kentucky 21–0. It was their second meeting; the series is even at 1–1.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 48°F
In the newspapers

The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, October 5, 1913, page 1
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indiana LOSES TO CHICAGO UNIV. Straight Football Coupled With Dame Fortune Wins First Game for Maroon Eleven Yesterday. MAINE TIES YALE MAINE TIES YALE Yale and Harvard Fail to Make show. Ing Predicted by Followers Illinois Wins Hands Down From Kentucky. UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. / CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-straight football working in harmony with Dame For. tune enabled the University Of Chicago to open the season and dedicate the new concrete stadium with q Il to victory. Ten thous. and rooters saw the clash, the first Of the season, and watched President Harry Pratt Judson form. ally turn over the renovated ampi theatre to Coach Alonzo A. Stage, rep. resenting the physical department Then the crowd settled back and wit messed game full Of fumbling and flukey plays and almost totally lack ing in exposition Of the new football
The Salt Lake tribune. (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, Utah, October 5, 1913
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illinois Beats Kentucky. U3BANA. Ill. Oct 4.-rho Unlvors!ty OF Illinois was strong for tho Univcruity OF Kou” tuchy In todny’p football game. tho Kentucky players loIng a 2i-to-0 game and cecdIng In mcnacIng IlilnolD’s goal

Grant County herald, Lancaster, Wis., October 8, 1913, page 8 (results column)
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FOOTBALL RESULTS. West. Chicago, ri; Indiana, Z. Northwestern, 10; Lake Forest, 0. Minnesota, rs; Ames, 0. Illinois, 21; Kentucky, 0. Wisconsin, 58; Lawrence, z. Michigan, 48; Case, 0. U. Of Kansas, Z; William Jewell, 0 Purdue, 20; Wabash, 0. Iowa, IS; Normal, 8. Drake, Q; Coe, 0. Michigan Aggies, &c; Olivet, 0. Notre Dame, 81; Ohio Northern, 0. Creighton, z; Kearney, Z. Marquette, 27; Carroll, 3. Missouri, 50; Drury, 0. Kansas, z; William Jewell, 0. Illinois Normal, 81; Eureka, 0. De PAW, SO; Moore’s Hill, 6. st. Louis University, 6; Shurtleff, Q Knox, 90; Galesburg, 3. Beloit, lis; Dekalb Normal, 0. East. Yale, O; Maine, 0. Harvard, IA; Bates, 0. Princeton, 50; Fordham, 0. Cornell, 81; Oberlin, r. Pennsylvania, 10; La Fayette, 0. Navy, O; Pittsburgh, 0. Army, “a; Stevens Institute, 0. Dartmouth, So; Colby, 0. Carlise, ri; Lehigh, Z.
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)
Illinois 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kentucky–Illinois gameTied 1–1 in two meetings.
| 1913 | Illinois 21, Kentucky 0 | |
| 1909 | Kentucky 6, Illinois 2 |
Around this game
Kentucky
- Next gamevs. TennesseeNov. 27, 1913
- SeasonKentucky in 1913
- ProgramKentucky history and records
Illinois
- Next gamevs. MissouriOct. 11, 1913
- SeasonIllinois in 1913
- ProgramIllinois history and records

