Illinois vs. Knox
Illinois and Knox have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1896; Illinois leads the series 7–0 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Illinois 7–0, and Illinois has won the last 7. Share
- Illinois wins
- 7
- Knox wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1896
- Longest streak
- 7 Illinois
- Current streak
- 7 Illinois
- Last 10 meetings
- Illinois 7–0
- Most recent
- 1905
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 27.4 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Illinois
- 6–0 Illinois’s record at home
- At Knox
- 0–1 Knox’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
- Illinois’s biggest win1896: Illinois 70, Knox 4by 66 points
Both programs through the years
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
1903 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 4, 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 30, 1905 | Illinois 6, Knox 0 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 1, 1904 | Illinois 11, Knox 0 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 3, 1903 | Illinois 29, Knox 5 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 13, 1900 | Illinois 16, Knox 0 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 7, 1899 | Illinois 5, Knox 0 | at Knox | ||
| Nov 12, 1897 | Illinois 64, Knox 0 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 10, 1896 | Illinois 70, Knox 4 | at Illinois |
Every game is listed as played on the field.