Drake at Northwestern

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  Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], October 29, 1916, page 34

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  PURPLE CRUSHES BRAKES ELEVEN Northwestern Continues Win ming Streak by Beating Iowa, 40 to 6. MURPHY RESTS HIS STARS Chicago, Oct. 28-The Northwest ern university foot ball eleven continued its winning streak today, defeating the Drake university eleven, 40 to 6, in one of the speediest contests ever played on the Northwest ern field. Coach Murphy of the Puzzle squad, used twenty-seven players, giving his stars a chance to rest after safe lead had been rolled Cigrand fractured his ribs in the last period and had to be carried off the field. Thomas, who replaced Smith at CEN ter for Northwestern, and Strong, center for the visitors, were put out Of the game for exchanging blows. The lineup:

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 29, 1916, page 50

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  Northwestern, 40; Drake, 6. CHICAGO. October 2S.-Northwestern University foot ball eleven continued its winning streak today. defeating Drake Upiversity, 20 to 6. Coach Murphy OF the nlayers. giving his stars a chance to rest after a safe lead had been rolled up.

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  Arizona republican, October 29, 1916, page 10

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  CHICAGO, Oct 2S.-The Northwest ern University football eleven continu- ed it’s winning streak today, defeat ing the Drake University eleven. 40 to 6. in one of the speediest contests ever played on the Northwestern field.

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  Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, October 29, 1916, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Results. At Princeton-Princeton Z; Dart mouth, g. At ambridge-Harvard, %; Cor nell, o. At New Haven-Yale, IS; Washing ton and jefferson, IA. At West Point-Army. CO. Villa Nova, T. At Annapolis-Navy. 20; University of Georgia, 8. At Pittsburg-Pittsburg. 20; Penn sylvania. 0. At Providence-Brown, 81; Rutgers 6. At State College, Pa.-Penn. State, As; Gettysburg, 2. At Springfield Mass.-Colgate, 81; Springfield, Y. M. c. A, IA. At Easton, Pa.-LaFayette, 81; Lee banon Valley, IA. At outhfield-Columbia, 0; Will liams. 0. At Brunswick, Me.--Bowdoin, 10; Bates, 8. AT Swarthmore. Pa.-Swarthmore, 1S; Ursinus 8. At Allentown-Muhlenb IT; Bucknell, 0. At Watervile. Me.-Colby, o; Maine. 0. At Schenectady, ~ View York University, 13; Union. 0. At Washington-George so; Albright, 0. AT Lancaster-Dickso son, 13; Franklin and Marshall, 0. At Cleveland-Case. 81; Wooster, o. At Tiffin, O.-Western Reserve, 0; Heidelberg, 81. At Granville-Denison. 10; Ohio Northern, 0. At Athens-Ohio, 6: Kenyon, 0. At Cincinnati-Cincinnati, 0; Ken lucky State, 80. AT Observation-Disclosures, 81 Bethany, 0. AT apolls-Minnesota, 81; Iowa, 0. At Wisconsin, 80; Chi cago, :. At Lafayette. Ind.-Illinois. IA; Purdue, I. At n-Northwestern, 40; Drake, 6. At Ann Acknowledgment, IA; SYRIA cuse. 10. At East Lansing-M. A. c. Fresh men, 13; Michigan Freshmen, II. At polis-Tufts, IL; Indiana, 10. At st. Louis-Washington, T.. I; Rolla, 6. At omaha-Dcnver, 10; Creighton, 13. At ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81; Nebraska Wesleyan, 0. At Lawrence-Kansas University, o. Kansas Aggies. 0. At Norman, Missouri u, 90; Oklahoma, ~. At Dallas-TeXas Aggies, 10; Has kell Indians, 6. At Washington Haverford, 4; Maryland State. 6. Notre Dame 6S; Wabash, o. At Austin, TeX.-Baylor, Z; Texas u. 8. At Peoria-Bradley Poly, rs; He’d ding, 0. At Seattle-Washingto 81; Whit man, 6. At Observation-Disclosures “a; Cali fornia, 10. At Palo Alto-Stanford, 20; Palo Alto A. c., 9. (Rugby.) At Fort Collins-Colorado Aggies. IA; Colorado College, ~. At Laramie-Colorado Mines. 30: Wyoming. 7. Vanderbilt. IS; Virginia. 3. North Carolina, So; Virginia Mil itary Institute, 13. Auburn, 7; Mississippi A. & NJ, 8.

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.

Northwestern leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.