Minnesota at Northwestern

Saturday, November 7, 1931

Northwestern beat Minnesota 32–⁠14. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 10–⁠5–⁠1.

AwayMinnesota7–⁠3 in 1931
14
HomeNorthwestern7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1931
32

FinalAttendance 48,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL ]! 4'13J1lE1|

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1931, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL ]! 4’13J1lE1| The following are scores of the principal football games played last Saturday afternoon in various sec tions of the country: Louisiana 0; Army 20. Georgia T; New York University 6. Indiana O.; Michigan g. Virginia 0; Columbia 27. Lehigh l9; Princeton T. Villanova T; Temple 13 Dartmouth 6; Harvard ‘. Navy 0; Ohio State 2. Carnegie Tech 6; Pittsburgh A.. Nebraska 2; Iowa 0. Pennsylvania 0; Notre Dame 49. st. Johns GMaryland) o; Yale 52. Ohio 27; DePauw 0. Iowa State ‘; Kansas Aggie5 6. Arkansas 13; Chicago 13. Wisconsin T; Illinois 6. Kansas 0; Oklahoma 10. Utah 28; Colorado College 6. Idaho 8; Washington State 9. University of Washington 0; Cal ifornia 13. Montana 0; Oregon State 13. Stanford 0; Southern California 19. Swarthmore 0; Delaware 26. Ripon O; Michigan 100. Alfred 0; Cornell 54. Detroit g.; Fordham 30. Bucknell T; Georgetown 0. Washington and Jefferson G.; Marquette 13. Duke 2; Kentucky 0. Centenary 6; Purdue 49. Northwestern 32; Minnesota 14.

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)

Northwestern 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Minnesota leads 56–⁠38–⁠5 in 99 meetings, counting the 83 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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