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 | Northwestern 19 -- UCLA 0. Burson passes to Zuravleff for one touchdown, Murakowski scores on a run, and Perricone run over 50 yards for another touchdown. |
| Northwestern 21 -- Purdue 0. Touchdowns by Burson, Tunnicliff, and Worthington. The Wildcats' defense shuts Purdue down so thoroughly that they cannot complete a single pass. |
| Northwestern 19 -- Minnesota 16. Minnesota goes to a 16-0 lead in the first 10 minutes, all of their points coming from Wildcat fumbles. Northwestern brings the score to 19-16 before halftime, and the second half is scoreless. |
| Northwestern 0 -- Michigan 28 |
| Northwestern 48 -- Syracuse 0 |
| Northwestern 21 -- Ohio State 7 |
| Northwestern 16 -- Wisconsin 7 |
| Northwestern 7 -- Notre Dame 12. For the first time in the 1948 season, Notre Dame temporarily trails an opponent. |
| Northwestern 20 -- Illinois 7. The game on which Northwestern's Rose Bowl hopes are pinned. The Wildcats score three touchdowns in the game's first half; Aschenbrenner runs 22 yards for one, Burson passes 23 for another, and "PeeWee" Day recovers a fumble, which Chuck Hagmann carries 65 yards to score. |
Conservative Northwestern Goes Wild
Northwestern's campus went wild even before the official
Rose Bowl invitation came. From the Chicago Herald American:
Evanston's dignity was tossed for a heavy loss as 8,000 Northwestern students swarmed into Fountain Square, tied traffic in knots and took over.
Jumping the gun on the 11 a.m. appointment of the Wildcats as the Big Nine's Rose Bowl football representatives, the undergrads gave no thought to classes.
They came downtown in a mighty, boisterous parade, afoot and by car, many carrying odds and ends from the recent homecoming celebration.
They sang, cheered, and cavorted. It was all spontaneous, which increased the fun. Charles Wright, head of the student governing board, had ordered pickets to insure that nobody went to classes.
But the pickets weren't needed. Faculty members got wind of the plans and classrooms were closed for the day.
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