Drake vs. Illinois

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

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.

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  1910 · Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., Oct 10, 1910

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  1920 · Bisbee daily review, Arizona, Oct 10, 1920

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  1933 · Evening star, Oct 1, 1933

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  1941 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Oct 19, 1941

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Drake vs. Iowa State69 meetings, Drake 17–⁠48–⁠4
• Drake vs. Grinnell50 meetings, Drake 35–⁠13–⁠2
• Drake vs. Northern Iowa36 meetings, Drake 19–⁠16–⁠1
• Drake vs. Wichita State35 meetings, Drake 10–⁠25
• Illinois vs. Northwestern119 meetings, Illinois 59–⁠55–⁠5
• Illinois vs. Ohio State105 meetings, Illinois 30–⁠71–⁠4
• Illinois vs. Purdue101 meetings, Illinois 47–⁠48–⁠6
• Illinois vs. Michigan98 meetings, Illinois 24–⁠72–⁠2