Minnesota at Northwestern

Saturday, October 19, 1929

Minnesota beat Northwestern 26–⁠14. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 10–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayMinnesota6–⁠2 in 1929
26
HomeNorthwestern6–⁠3 in 1929
14

FinalAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID GAMES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID GAMES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played last Saturday afternoon in various parts of the states Uni versity of Washington 13; Washington State 20. Fordham ‘; Holy Cross O. Dartmouth 34, Columbia O. Georgia 19; North Carolina 12. Harvard 20; Army 20. Wittenburg 13; Hidelberg O.. Carnegie Tech o; Washington and Jefferson O. New York ‘; Penn State 0. Dickinson T; George Washing ton 6. Navy 45; Duke 13. Northwestern 14 Minnesota 26. Notre Dame 19; Wisconsin o. Ohio State 2; Michigan 0. Cornell 13; Princeton ‘. California 12; Pennsylvania 2. Yale IA; Brown 6. Utah 40; Colorado 0. Stanford 40; Oregon State ‘. Oregon 34; Idaho T. Southern California a GA; Occi- dental 0. Amherst 21; Hamilton 6.

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 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Minnesota leads 56–⁠38–⁠5 in 99 meetings, counting the 85 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Northwestern 38, Minnesota 35
2023Northwestern 37, Minnesota 34
2022Minnesota 31, Northwestern 3
2021Minnesota 41, Northwestern 14
2019Minnesota 38, Northwestern 22
2018Northwestern 24, Minnesota 14

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