Minnesota at Illinois

Saturday, November 6, 1915

Minnesota and Illinois tied 6–⁠6. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 7–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayMinnesota6–⁠0–⁠1 in 1915
6
HomeIllinois5–⁠0–⁠2 in 1915
6

FinalHigh 55°F, low 39°F

In the newspapers

  • The Albuquerque morning journal's story: HASKELL DEFEAT RAISES CHICAGO HOPES FOR TITLE Game Said to Strengthen Be lief That Stagg Has Surprise 10 Store for Minnesota and Illinois Teams

    Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., November 8, 1915, page 1

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    HASKELL DEFEAT RAISES CHICAGO HOPES FOR TITLE Game Said to Strengthen Be lief That Stagg Has Surprise 10 Store for Minnesota and Illinois Teams Chidlgo. SOY Chicago hope Of suoilor conference football champioushlp were strengthened as lssult 90 the weekend GAINES boz inc middle west The defeat of the Has koil Indians by The Maroons strength eucd the belief that Stage has “a surprise in Store fur Minnesota nnd ID unols Although the defeat OF Michlgau h Cornell hud been expected tnr overwhelming score rolled Mp Dog the eastern toam surprised followers of the game The prediction for close game tt Columbus Was borne ou by Ohios one point victory over Indiana Dosplic the defeat the Hoosiers gave ohio q hard battle TWO neld goals %, pultz proved DEE Gliding fueiars De- PuFduea victory over iowa Games calculated to clear up the muddie surrounding the conference championship are ON ihe cards for next Saturday and active prcpartiuns Wll begin tomorrow az Illinois. Wisconsin. Chicago ana Minnesota. of these foul Wisconsin “a the only ono eith defeat Joe iis record aud 60 claim recognition in the final counting. the Badgers must do their best against Illinois Both Coach Williams ana Cnach stagg may beexpected 10 use their highest strategy ia the Munesotn.Chi clash at Minneapolis

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 58% to win.

Minnesota leads 41–⁠33–⁠3 in 77 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Minnesota 25, Illinois 17
2023Illinois 27, Minnesota 26
2022Illinois 26, Minnesota 14
2021Illinois 14, Minnesota 6
2020Minnesota 41, Illinois 14
2019Minnesota 40, Illinois 17

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