Northwestern vs. Wabash

Northwestern and Wabash first met in 1905 and have played 2 times; Northwestern leads the series 2–⁠0. Over the last 2 meetings it’s Northwestern 2–⁠0, and Northwestern has won the last 2.

Northwestern wins
2
Wabash wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1905
Longest streak
2 Northwestern
Current streak
2 Northwestern
Last 10 meetings
Northwestern 2–⁠0
Most recent
1929

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Northwestern and Wabash, 1905 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 1905 game: Northwestern Defeats wabash.

    1905 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Oct 8, 1905

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story of the 1929 game: Football Results

    1929 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Oct 28, 1929

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 26, 1929Northwestern 66, Wabash 0at Northwestern
Oct 7, 1905Northwestern 5, Wabash 0at Northwestern

Every game is listed as played on the field.