DePauw vs. Northwestern

DePauw and Northwestern first met in 1904 and have played 3 times; Northwestern leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Northwestern 3–⁠0, and Northwestern has won the last 3.

DePauw wins
0
Northwestern wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1904
Longest streak
3 Northwestern
Current streak
3 Northwestern
Last 10 meetings
Northwestern 3–⁠0
Most recent
1944

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1910s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
42.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Northwestern
3–⁠0 Northwestern’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of DePauw and Northwestern, 1904 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 New-York tribune's story of the 1919 game: De Pauw Eleven Loses TO Northwestern Team

    1919 · New-York tribune, Oct 12, 1919

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 23, 1944Northwestern 62, DePauw 0at Northwestern
Oct 11, 1919Northwestern 20, DePauw 0at Northwestern
Oct 29, 1904Northwestern 45, DePauw 0at Northwestern

Every game is listed as played on the field.