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Wildcat History
The NU - USC Series

We wrap up our posts featuring NU's series with some of its opponents this year. The final installment: the Wildcats' series with USC...

Wildcat Preview and Prediction
The Lowes Line: Nebraska

We don't know (yet) if the 'Cats will continue to roll, but we do know that the Lowes Line will continue to obsess about Men in Tights...

Braydon Brus closes in on Purdue
quarterback Ej Horton
[Imagn Images]

SCHOOL RECOGNIZES
1876 TEAM;
NU NOW THE OLDEST
TEAM IN THE MIDWEST

Northwestern officially added the February 1876 game with the Chicago Foot-Ball Club to the team's history and records, making Northwestern the oldest football team in the Midwest...

'Cats Blank Purdue

Northwestern notched its fourth straight win by dispatching Purdue, 19-0, in the final football game at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium. The win was NU's first shutout since 2017, and only its sixth shutout win since the 1995 season thirty years ago.

With the win, NU is just one victory away from bowl eligibility.

NU's football record at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium is now (possibly) final...

Wildcat Preview and Prediction
The Lowes Line: Purdue

It's the Wildcats' (probable) finale at their lake house. It's the 30th anniversary of Garypalooza. And it's the Week of the Favored Wildcats. And the Lowes Line? Naturally, they stay right on target..

Wildcat History
The 1995 Season:
A Chronology

Northwestern will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the legendary 1995 Wildcat football team this Saturday. Here is an HTP post from the tenth anniversary: prepare for Saturday by reviewing a timeline of the events of the 1995 season...

Northwestern's 2025 season is the school's 140th playing football. Now, you can read about NU's very first season and how it all began. The school's first football game was during the 1875-'76 season, making NU the oldest existing football team of any sort in the American Midwest.

Gus Hornsby's Gamble tells the story of Augustus Hornsby, the maverick English army officer who formed the Chicago Foot-Ball Club and taught the game to Northwestern students. Hornsby's story, relayed here for the first time anywhere, is a wild ride: he was a pioneer journalist, an explorer, and eventually a fabulously wealthy real estate tycoon. But his gambling addiction led to financial ruin and a stunning string of crimes that made Hornsby a nationally-hunted fugitive.

My new book provides a new glimpse into life at Northwestern at the school's infancy and describes its first football team in detail. It is a must for any fan of Northwestern and NU history. Click here to learn more about the book. You can order it directly from Amazon.

Other pages updated this week (Oct. 26):

Uniform History

Archived

Updated 10/24/25

Archived

Next for the Wildcats:

Michigan
Wrigley Field
Sat., Nov. 15
11:00 a.m. CST
TV: FOX

2025 Results
(5-3; 3-2 B1G)

L	Tulane	3-23
W	Wstrn Ill - M - FCS - FRI	42-7
L	Oregon - M	14-34
W	UCLA - M	17-14
W	ULM - HC - M	42-7
W	Penn State	22-21
W	Purdue - M	19-0
L	Nebraska	21-28
-	USC - FRI	0-0
H	Michigan - W	Nov 15
H	Minnesota - W	Nov 22
A	Illinois	Nov 29
(M=NM Field. W=Wrigley Field)

2024 Results
(4-8; 2-7 B1G)

W	Miami (O) - M	13-6
L	Duke - M - FRI	20-26
W	Eastern Ill. - FCS - M	31-7
L	Washington	5-24
L	Indiana - M	24-41
W	Maryland - FRI	37-10
L	Wisconsin - M	3-23
L	Iowa	14-40
W	Purdue	26-20
L	Ohio State - HC - W	7-31
L	Michigan	6-50
L	Illinois - W	28-38
(M=NM Field. W=Wrigley Field)

Medicine Ball Is Now Administered Lakeside!

"...It will always be my school, our school."
--Gary Barnett, as quoted by Teddy Greenstein

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