Drake vs. Northwestern

Drake and Northwestern have 2 meetings on file, the first in 1916; Northwestern leads the series 2–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 2 meetings it’s Northwestern 2–⁠0, and Northwestern has won the last 2.

Drake wins
0
Northwestern wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1916
Longest streak
2 Northwestern
Current streak
2 Northwestern
Last 10 meetings
Northwestern 2–⁠0
Most recent
1938

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Northwestern, 1916 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 Omaha daily bee's story of the 1916 game: PURPLE CRUSHES BRAKES ELEVEN Northwestern Continues Win ming Streak by Beating Iowa, 40 to 6. MURPHY RESTS HIS STARS

    1916 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Oct 29, 1916

  • The Evening star's story of the 1938 game: NORTHWESTERN AHEAD Sophs Shine AS Drake Is Crushed, $50, Before Crowd of rs 900.

    1938 · Evening star, Oct 9, 1938

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 8, 1938Northwestern 33, Drake 0at Northwestern
Oct 28, 1916Northwestern 40, Drake 6at Northwestern

Every game is listed as played on the field.