History Section
Created
5/27/01;
Updated
7/1/05

 








Featured Historical Research
Click here for a retrospective of the Northwestern football uniform.

Also, be sure to check out the Unofficial Origin of NU football!

Read the strange and surprising story of Wildcat Jimmy Johnson.

Other NU history features:



NU Football: An Anecdotal History
During the offseason HailToPurple.com occasionally posts small excerpts from Gary Barnett's High Hopes, Walter Paulison's Tale of the Wildcats, local newspaper columns, and several other sources that give anecdotal histories of Northwestern Football.  Click below to view the history passages, in the order of the events they describe.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three
NU's official football results (which can be found in the media guide)  include the dates of each game, the opponent played, the location and the score.  However, for many games between 1882 and 1937 some of this information is missing.   Using Tale of the Wildcats, James Howell's Web site research, old copies of the Daily Northwestern and the Chicago Tribune,  and other schools' media guides, I have tried to fill in some of the holes that are in the Northwestern football media guide's official history and game-by-game results.  Click below to view the current draft and "work in progress" list of NU games (Note: this file is NOT a Web html file, but an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file, which may be downloaded or simply invoked to view online: history.pdf