Minnesota at Northwestern

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1936, page 28

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  TOTH’S DRIVE N|PS MINNESOTA, SIugging Penalty Paves Way to NorthWestern’s Score, Ending Great Streak. thNOA OINs LII, SCtoUCI ol. - The supposedly impregnable citadel of Minnesota’s foot ball – power fell today before the furious charge of Northwestern’s Wild cats, carrying with it the demolishment of the games most celebrated winning streak and the 1896 cham pionship dreams Of the galloping Co pliers. Taking advantage of sequence Of extraordinary breaks” Northwestern pushed over a last period touchdown to beat Minnesota, to 0, in battle that was savagely fought in the mud ana rain before shrieking crowd Of $1,000 spectators in Dyche Stadium. WidSeth Slugs, GOphers Lose. A PENALTY for slugging by Big Ed “a Widseth, star tackle and co-captain Of the Minnesotans, followed the recovery Of a Gopher tumble on the visitors 13-yard line and paved the way for Steve 10th, Northwestern fullback from Toledo, Ohio, to plough across for the winning score on the second play of the final quarter. ‘Widseth, in the pile-up of line play. hit an opposing player twice IN the face, after the whistle blew” said Referee John Getchen Of st. Thomas after the game. The ofiense called for a 15-yard penalty but since the Wildcats had the ball only Is yards from the goal line, the actual penalty amounted to – yards and left the home team with four chances to put the ball across from the 1-yard stripe. Third Play Gets Score. MINNESOTA twice thrust back line @A plunges, with Don Geyer and 10th carrying the ball. before and after the teams changed sides Of the field for the final quarter. 10th, on the third play Of the series and sec ond play of the last quarter, plunged across his own right tackle for the touchdown. Toth’s attempt to place-kick the extra point was blocked by Anti, Gopher end, but the mud-caked Wild cats took the six points that the ‘‘breaks” had aided them in collecting and then proceeded to fight of Min nesota’s most furious counter charges throughout the last period. The dophers went down with col ors flying, throwing all their Wanted manpower into the game in their furious efforts to turn the tide, but they were stopped by combination of the mud. the rain, their own loose handling of the slippery ball and the sensational defense Of the Wildcats. Northwestern Leads Race. THE defeat brought dramatic fin – ish to the Minnesota winning streak. which had extended through n successive games, perched the Gophers on top Of the foot ball world, and made the system taught by Bernie herman the standard by which gridiron production was measured. The mighty men Of Minnesota, under Bierman’s shrewd tutoring, had gone through % consecutive matches without defeat. Just q week ago, in taking their fourth straight game of by 33-to-0 margin, they were hailed as another invincible machine, headed for national championship heights. Minnesota’s first setback since the Gophers lost to Michigan In the final game Of the 1882 season not only rocked the entire American foot ball world, but gave Northwestern COM mand Of the Big Ten championship race. The Wildcats also entered the game unbeaten and their triumph stirred a rain-soaked crowd Of partisan rooters to wild heights of celebration.

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  Imperial Valley press, California, November 1, 1936, page 6 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES FAR WEST FAR WEST Whittier II, Pomona 7 Washington 7, Oregon D Oregon State IA, Montana Santa Barbara State l3, New. 0 Arizona o, Kansas o Stanford 10, U.CL.A. 6 Washington State IA, Calf 13 Idaho Is. Gonzaga Santa Clara IL, Auburn OTHER SECTIONS st. Joseph 2, Danyille Teachers 0 Miss. State SO, SeWanee 0 S. Dakota 6, S. Dakota State 0 louisiana 10, Vanderbilt 0 VMI II, Virginia 6 Wash. jefferson %, Marietta w. Virginia Wesleyan Ia, Wayn- eSburg Z Hampden Sydney 10, William g. Mary Chicago 7, Wisconsin, 6 Centre 26, Xavier II w. Virginia State 6, Bluefield 0 Ill Wesleyan 13, Bradley Butler “a, Franklin 0 Carroll 81, Oshkosh 0 Charleston Teachers IL, Illinois College Cornell College u, Knox 0 Wabash 20, Evansville 0 Florida 7, Maryland 6 Furman IA, Davidson l3 Drake 10, Grinnell Howard (Ala) 6, Southwestern 0 Lake Forest Is, North Central 0 Tex. Christian %, Baylor 0 Michigan Mines Tech 7, North land 6 Oberlin IA, Kenyon I Northwestern 6. Minnesota 0 Boston College %, Mich. State l3 Temple 8, Holy Cross 0 Fordham O, Pittsburgh 0 Pennsylvania is, Navy 6 Montana School of Mines 6, U of Idaho $50. branch 0 Harvard IA, Princeton IA Colgate IA, Army Illinois g. Michigan 6 Dartmouth IL, Yale 7 N. Carolina 81, N. Carolina State 6 Manhattan %, CCNY Z Purdue 7, Carnegie Tech Slippery Rock Tchrs g., Grove City DePaul 10, Kalamazoo Tchrs 7 Penn. State 18, Syracuse Amherst 13, Mass State Lehigh 10, Rutgers Ohio u. 10, Cincinnati 0 Rhode Island 10, Worcester Hobart 81, Rochester l3 st. Johns 13, Delaware 6 Springfield 10. Providence 0 Williams 26, Union l3 Vermont 13 Norwich 6 Virginia State IA Virginia Union 6 Duke 81, Washington Lee Rice u, Geo. Washington st. Louis 25, Wichita Arkansas 10, Texas A & M Grand Rapids JC 81, Detroit Tech 6 Tennessee as, Georgia 0 Rand Macon %, Johns Hopkins Alabama IA, Kentucky 0 N.Y.U. 46, Lafayette 0 Notre Dame 7, Ohio State 2 Ohio Wesleyan 10, Miami D

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 2, 1936, page 5 (results column)

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  EOOT BALL As1REsULTs The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington T. Oregon 0. Idaho IS; Gonzaga ‘. Washington State IA, California 13. Montana ‘; Oregon State A. Stanford 19; UCLA 6. Brigham Young 0; Utah Is. Louisiana 19; Vanderbilt 0. Louisiana Tech 13; Tulane g. Holy Cross O; Temple 3. Navy 6; Penn 16 Illinois 9; Michigan G. Syracuse 0; Penn State IS. Colgate IA Army 2. Duke 51 Washington Lee 0. Dartmouth II; Yale T. Cornell l3; Columbia 20. Villa Nova 0; Bucknell 6. Purdue T. Carnegie Tech 6. Rutgers 0; Lehigh 19. Alabama Poly 0; Santa Clara 12. Iowa 6; Indiana 13. Missouri 0; Nebraska 20. Alabama IA; Kentucky 0. Chicago T; Wisconsin 6. Ohio State 3; Notre Dame T. Southern Methodist IA; Texas T. Baylor 0; Texas Christian 23. | George Washington 6; Rice 12. Clemson IA Georgie Tech 13. Tennessee 46; Georgia 0. Princeton 14; Harvard IA. Minnesota 0; Northwestern 6. Pitt 0; Fordham 0. SUNDAY GAME University of Portland 0; Uni versity of San Francisco 19.

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Minnesota leads 56–⁠38–⁠5 in 99 meetings, counting the 79 since this game.