Chicago vs. Lombard
Chicago and Lombard have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1900; Chicago leads the series 5–0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Chicago 5–0, and Chicago has won the last 5. Share
- Chicago wins
- 5
- Lombard wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1900
- Longest streak
- 5 Chicago
- Current streak
- 5 Chicago
- Last 10 meetings
- Chicago 5–0
- Most recent
- 1904
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 30.4 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Chicago
- 5–0 Chicago’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Chicago’s biggest win1901: Chicago 38, Lombard 0by 38 points
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1902 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Sep 21, 1902
1904 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Sep 19, 1904
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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 17, 1904 | Chicago 40, Lombard 5 | at Chicago | ||
| Sep 19, 1903 | Chicago 34, Lombard 0 | at Chicago | ||
| Sep 20, 1902 | Chicago 27, Lombard 6 | at Chicago | ||
| Sep 21, 1901 | Chicago 38, Lombard 0 | at Chicago | ||
| Sep 22, 1900 | Chicago 24, Lombard 0 | at Chicago |
Every game is listed as played on the field.