Ohio State at Minnesota

Saturday, October 28, 1922

Minnesota beat Ohio State 9–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–⁠1 as played.

AwayOhio State3–⁠4 in 1922
0
HomeMinnesota3–⁠3–⁠1 in 1922
9

FinalHigh 64°F, low 43°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: Michigan Downs Illinois "a to O, and Minnesota Vanquishes Ohio State

    New-York tribune, October 29, 1922, page 19

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    Michigan Downs Illinois “a to O, and Minnesota Vanquishes Ohio State IOWA CITY. Ia, Oct. Is (By The Associated Press). - Tearing great holes in Purdue’s line with their smashing interference and hard hit ting backs, Iowa’s big ten champions scored almost at will on the Boiler makers, swamping them under 5s to game Of the season played on Iowa field here to-day. Captain Gordon Locke, playing Par kins’s quarterback position, starred for the Hawkeyes in the first two periods, crumbling the Purdue line for gain after gain. Locke was given q rest late in the second period and remained out for the rest of the game. Parkin, who took the pilots position in the third quarter and part Of the fourth, played up to the form he showed at Yale and reeled off run after run for gains Of from five to thirty yards. ANN ARBoR, Mich, Oct. 2s (By The Associated Press)...Beating down the stubborn defense Of Bob Zuppkes men, Michigan won it’s second Western con ference football game of the season here to-day, downing Illinois “a to 0. M1NNEAPOLIS, Oct. s.-Minnesota upset the dope at Northrup Field here to-day, defeating Ohio State to 0. BLOOMINGTON. Ind, Oct. 2s.-Indiana University won its first game of the season to-day when it downed the Michigan Aggies, IA to 6. Captain Hanny, of the Crimson, was tower of strength and his kicking featured. Indiana made her first touchdown near the opening OF the game when q costly tumble of the Aggies left Indiana with the ball on the IT, yard line. The rest Of the scoring was done in the last two periods. A brill liant thirty-five yard pass, Richards to Huffman, netted the score fox the Michigan Aggies when thirty-fve yards were gained.

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story: -ChicGgo-Princeton Game Will Feature Fights in Midwest

    The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., October 28, 1922, page 9 (results column)

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    -ChicGgo-Princeton Game Will Feature Fights in Midwest Chicago, October 27.-with the final rehearsals over. the stage was set tonight for the biggest football classic in Chicago’s history tomorrow, when Princeton meets Chicago In an interssetional contest that promises to attract the attention of the gridiron world. The $4,000 football fans who OBJ tanned tickets for the game are eagerly awaiting the referees whistle that will start the hostilities, while thousands of others are making frantic last-minute efforts to obtain tickets and are offering any price up to 500 for a seat costing IS. Demand for tickets to the game reached unprecedented proportions, Several arrests were made of scalp ers and officials at the university seemed satisfied with their efforts to stop the practice of selling tickets for many times their face value. The invading Tigers swung into action behind locked gates on Stagg field for final light signal drill shortly after their arrival. No out siders were allowed to witness the workout After the Tigers finished the Maroons, under the direction of Coach Stagg, went through their final drill, also secret. New Plays eRehearsed Numerous new plays which the Maroons have been developing for Princeton were rehearsed, and the general belief prvails that a surprise will be sprung tomorrow by Stage, whose team scored 9 to 0 triumph over Princeton last year. 1--WE realize that we have a hard game, but we are out to win despite opposition” said Coach Bin” Roper of the Tigers The workout this afternoon was just what the boys needed after their long trip. What they need most now is rest, They will be in good condition for the contest tomorrow. We believe We have an even chance for victory, and that we have stronger team than the one that faced Chicago last year” Coach Stage declined to predict a Chicago victory, saying: THE game should result in hard. %clean contest. May the better team win” OF the other western conference teams Illinois. meets Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ohio State Will clash with Minnesota at Minneapolis, while Purdue will oppose Iowa, conQueror of Yale, at Iowa City. Indiana will be opposed by the Michigan Aggies at Bloomington, while Northwestern and Wisconsin will be idle.

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 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Ohio State leads 48–⁠7; as played, 49–⁠7 in 56 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Ohio State 42, Minnesota 3
2023Ohio State 37, Minnesota 3
2021Ohio State 45, Minnesota 31
2018Ohio State 30, Minnesota 14
2015Ohio State 28, Minnesota 14
2014Ohio State 31, Minnesota 24

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