DePauw vs. Illinois

DePauw and Illinois have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1892; Illinois leads the series 6–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Illinois 6–⁠0, and Illinois has won the last 6.

DePauw wins
0
Illinois wins
6
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1892
Longest streak
6 Illinois
Current streak
6 Illinois
Last 10 meetings
Illinois 6–⁠0
Most recent
1924

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠3
1900s0–⁠1
1920s0–⁠2
Average margin
31.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At DePauw
0–⁠1 DePauw’s record at home
At Illinois
5–⁠0 Illinois’s record at home
Shutouts
5

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Illinois’s biggest win1900: Illinois 63, DePauw 0by 63 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of DePauw and Illinois, 1892 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1921 game: ILLINOIS WINS, 21 TO o, FROM DEPAUW GRIDMEN

    1921 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 6, 1921

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

Oct 25, 1924Illinois 45, DePauw 0at Illinois
Nov 5, 1921Illinois 21, DePauw 0at Illinois
Oct 3, 1900Illinois 63, DePauw 0at Illinois
Oct 15, 1898Illinois 16, DePauw 0at Illinois
Oct 7, 1893Illinois 14, DePauw 4at DePauw
Nov 18, 1892Illinois 34, DePauw 0at Illinois

Every game is listed as played on the field.