Indiana at Minnesota

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 11, 1928, page 1

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  MINNESOTA DRIVES TO 21–⁠12 TRIUMPH Crushes Indiana With Fine Running Attack, Netting Gain of 342 Yards. BY the Associated Press n n INNEAPOLIS, November TO- HH Minnesota’s heralded dry w land” attack had its inning 4 4 today and its backs made the most of it in downing In diana, 81 to IL, before 10000 celebrating Dads day in Memorial Stadium. Hovde, Brockmeyer and Pharmer aided by some great blocking and line the tackles for three touchdowns-one each in the first, second and fourth periods, with point after touchdown added in each instance. Indiana, which kept Minnesota out of the Big Ten championship last year with a l4-l4 tie game, got touchdown in the first 2 minutes of play today after recovering a Minnesota tumble on the Gopher’s 22-yard line and scored again in the last session after some brilliant forward passing. After two successive Saturdays on muddy fields with 1-point defeats the Gophers had dry undcrfooting today and, though recast somewhat due 70 injuries, made 342 yards by rushes. averaging yards on each attempt and not single yard by forward passes. Indiana’S lis yards on 81 ruSheS was matched by Hovde alone in IA tries, but the Hoosiers connected for 152 yards on passes, completing nine Of Is at tempts in the greatest forward passing offensive Minnesota has faced this year. Brockmeyer, who got 1855 yards in Is rushes, counted the Gophers’ first touchdown just as the first period ended when he raced through the Indiana line and ran 80 yards. Hovde’s two touch downs we’re on end runs of % and 20 yards, his great speed carrying him around the Hoosier tacklers The Gopher line was without the services of Capt. Gibson and john son and had Pulkrabek only for par of the game. Nagurski, his injuries not enough healed for backfield play worked in spectacular fashion at tackle

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 12, 1928, page 5 (results column)

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  GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are the scores of the principal football games played in various parts of the country last Saturday afternoon: California 6; Washington O. Stanford 31; Santa Clara 0. S. California 78; Arizona z. Pennsylvania [; Harvard 0. Pittsburgh 25; Washington and Jefferson o. Washington State 3s; California at Los Angeles 0. Wisconsin 25; Chicago 0. Nebraska A, Oklahoma 6. Notre Dame 12; Army 6. Carnegie Tech 13; Georgetown Michigan 6; Navy 6. Minnesota 21; Indiana 12. Northwestern ‘; Purdue G. Marquette ‘; Kansas O. Georgia Tech 19: Vanderbilt ‘. Montana State IA; Wyoming ‘. North Dakota 6; South Dakota O. South Dakota State 27; North Dakota State 6. Knox IA: Cornell ‘. Illinois If; Butler 0. Center [: Louisville o. Drake 20; Washington Ja.ver sity o. Florida 26: Georgia 6. North Carolina 0; South Caro lima 0. Detroit 39, Michigan State 0.

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.

Minnesota leads 40–⁠26–⁠3 in 69 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.