Grinnell at Minnesota
Saturday, October 22, 1892 Share
Minnesota beat Grinnell 40–24. It was their first meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 39°F
In the newspapers

St. Paul daily globe, Saint Paul, Minn., October 23, 1892, page 1
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GRINNELL WALLOPED. University OF Minnesota Boys Prove Great kickers. The University of Minnesota football eleven IS feeling better this morning, Yesterday, i’ll the Minneapolis baseball park, they met the men from Grinuell college, TO-, and wiped up the earth with them. Last year the Mime sofa boys met the Grihnell team twice, once in a draw game and again in hard-fought tussle which ended in favor of Minnesota by small margin. The Grinnell men swore big swear that they would make the Mime sotans regret it this year. They came up to Minneapolis yesterday to make good their oath, and will 90 home tomorrow Sadder but lamer. The game was fast all the time. but was not so good game as that between Minnesota and Ann Arbor. The teams lined up as follows:
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 text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Minnesota 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Grinnell–Minnesota gameMinnesota leads 10–2–1 in 13 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.
| 1925 | Minnesota 34, Grinnell 6 | |
| 1904 | Minnesota 146, Grinnell 0 | |
| 1903 | Minnesota 39, Grinnell 0 | |
| 1902 | Minnesota 102, Grinnell 0 | |
| 1900 | Minnesota 26, Grinnell 0 | |
| 1899 | Grinnell 5, Minnesota 5 |
Around this game
Grinnell
- Next gameat MinnesotaOct. 21, 1893
- SeasonGrinnell in 1892
- ProgramGrinnell history and records
Minnesota
- Next gameat WisconsinOct. 29, 1892
- SeasonMinnesota in 1892
- ProgramMinnesota history and records
