Englewood High vs. Illinois

Englewood High and Illinois have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1892; Illinois leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Illinois 4–⁠0, and Illinois has won the last 4.

Englewood High wins
0
Illinois wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1892
Longest streak
4 Illinois
Current streak
4 Illinois
Last 10 meetings
Illinois 4–⁠0
Most recent
1903

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠1
1900s0–⁠3
Average margin
40.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Illinois
4–⁠0 Illinois’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 Englewood High and Illinois, 1892 on13001500170018951900

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 The Indianapolis journal's story of the 1903 game: AGAINST ILLINI ENGLEWOOD HIGH school, REGIS TERED A PLACE KICK. addened by This Inroad on Its Glory, Illinois BuckIed Down and Piled Up q Score of a. to 3. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

    1903 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Sep 20, 1903

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 19, 1903Illinois 45, Englewood High 5at Illinois
Sep 27, 1902Illinois 45, Englewood High 0at Illinois
Sep 28, 1901Illinois 39, Englewood High 0at Illinois
Nov 5, 1892Illinois 38, Englewood High 0at Illinois

Every game is listed as played on the field.