Butler at Minnesota

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  Askov American. (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, Minnesota, November 18, 1926, page 9

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  MINNESOTA NEWS ton of the Minnesota State Horticul. tural Society at the state capitol. st. cloud-St. Cloud teachers college won the Little Ten conference cham pionship here by defeating Mankato Teachers. to 6, in the most sensational and spectacular battle wit messed in the Granite City in 20 years. NorthfieId-Playing on soggy gridiron, the Hamline football team of st. Paul slipped through to 10 too victory over st. Olaf. The victory gave the Pipers undisputed possession of second place In the state conference standings. st. Peter-Purchase of land and appointment of a finance committee are steps already taken toward erection of dormitory for men at Gustavus Adolphus college here. Need for additional housing quarters has been felt some time. st. Paul-Several legislative cleo. tions were very close, and recounts may be asked for. Senator L. P. john son won by 35 votes in the twelfth district over C. F. Norwood, and Sen. ator K. K. Solberg’s margin in the thirteenth district over A. L. Almen was only Al. st. Paul-Replying to deputation from northern Minnesota and south eastern Manitoba requesting that an all weather road be constructed from Winnipeg to the Minnesota boundary through Piney and Woodbridge, the Manitoba government announces that such a proposal will be carried out. MinneapoIis-Min buried the light Butler football team under an avalanche of touchdowns at Memorial stadium, the Gophers winning by a score of 81 to 0 before 5000 rootefs who tired of watching Doc Spears men race up and down the field at will against the so-called Bulldogs from In dianapolis. ST. Paul-Amendment No. 2 the forestry tax measure submitted to Minnesota voters November 2, was adopted and now is part of the state constitution. Nos. 1 and were defeated. These results were made GER tain by checking the official votes Of 70 counties, now available at the Of flee of Secretary of State Mike Holm. MinneapoIis-Complete hospitaliza ton, with treatment ranking as the finest in the world, will be ready for nearly ATS Minnesota veterans OF the World war March 1, when the huge, $1.850,000 United States Veterans bureau hospital at Fort Smelling is open ed. Work on the 20 buildings is rush ing along at ton speed, the contractor is seven weeks ahead of schedule. Minneapois-What is planned to be the biggest Homecoming event in the history of the university is scheduled with the Michigan–Minnesota game. With $4,000 invitations out to the grad yates of the school the crowd is expected to reach record proportions. “Blaze the trail back to Minnesota” has been the motto adopted by the committee in charge. Brainerd-Tourist traffic is a mat ter of supreme importance to Mime sofa, Governor Theodore Christensen declared at the dedication of paved road, the middle gateway to northern Minnesota’s share of the ten thousand lakes. Encouragement to summer va cation visitors should be given by the state and it’s citizenry, the chief executive pointed out in the main address of a full days program marking the opening of the pavement. st. PauI-Suffering but little dam age from frost the Minnesota corn crop will amount to 152,592,000 bush els in 1926. gain Of more than A. 100000 bushels over the government forecast month ago, according to the November crop estimate Of the United States department of agriculture. For the country as a whole corn gained 100000 bushels dur ing the month and crop Of 2,693,963,. 900 bushels was announced as the preliminary estimate. So. st. Paul-Price records fell In South st. Paul, at the auction sale which marked the close of the ninth annual Junior Livestock show, the biggest and best” event of it’s kind in Minnesota history, in which more than 600 members of boys and girls clubs participated. Lydia Potter, a. year-old girl from Springfield, received $1.20 a pound for her grand champion baby beef, the highest price ever paid for a calf at junior show in Minnesota. ST.. PauI-The federal government owns 220, 492 acres of land in northern Minnesota which now is subject to entry. Anyone wishing any of this land can go to the land office at Cass Lake and file for it. There. are 82,092 acres in Koochiching county, described as timbered and swampy. In Lake OF the Woods county there are 66,161 acres listed as agricultural, timber, and swampy. Roseau county has ~. 4OS acres, swampy, partly drained. There are 1856 acres in st. Louis county, 1885 in Beltrami county, and small acreages in other counties,

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  Evening star, November 14, 1926, page 101

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  GALLOPING GOPHERS DEFEAT BUTLER, $40 MINNEAPOLIS. November 13 R,. --Gailoping Gophers they were named this week. and at the christening ceremonies today In the Memorial Stadium the Minnesota squad proved its right to the name. swamping Butler University. 81 to o. First Gopher regulars trod the turf. slippery from misty rain. piling UP 33 points in the first period, and with many substitutes in the lineup. /garnering “a more in the second period. \ Then Coach Spears poured In sec ond and third string men. who scored a touchdown in each of the last two per’ods and stopped every threat Of the Indianapolis men.

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  Douglas daily dispatch, Arizona, November 16, 1926, page 5 (results column)

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  COPHERS MAY BRING A TIE in Big TEN CHICAGO, Nov. Is RJ-Upon the shoulders of the Minnesota Gophers in the view Of most followers on western conference football rests the only considerable chance of avertins tie for big ten title honors. Minnesota, which lost 10 SIicniga:t early in the season, meets again neXs Saturday the wolverines who breasted by a single point last week the barr rier to their championship nopes N, terposed by Ohio State. Northwestern, which stands vita Michigan at the top of the big ten heap, meets Iowa and a defeat for the Wildcats would be regarded as : distinct upset. The Minnesota -Micn> igan combat assures already as bis q crowd as the Minnesota stadium will hold. Since the Gophers lost by 20 points to Michigan, Speers’ mel; Eave hit their stride and have rollec roughshod over Wabash, Wisconsin,, Iowa and Butler, conquering the Bullerites Saturday by an 81 to 0 score Michigan began another week o. the same hard practice necessary for the Ohio state conflict. Yost toio his men that Minnesota will be a For the first t.rGe this season every big ten team will be in action Saturday against a conference foe. Wis consin meets Chicago, Indiana battles Purdue and Ohio state engages Him els. All of these have the earmarKs of royal battles.

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Minnesota leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.