Notre Dame at Minnesota
Saturday, October 30, 1937 Share
Notre Dame beat No. 4 Minnesota 7–6. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 3–0–1.
FinalHigh 54°F, low 42°FAttendance 63,237
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 31, 1937, page 31
Read the text
PENN NASENSAT|0N BUMP|NG M|DD|ES. Notre Dame, Rice, Georgia Tech Pull Unexpected in Startling Style. a -HE national football rankings have suffered another terrific shake-up, thanks mostly to 4 the combined efforts of the “Fighting Irish” of .Notre Dame, the Owls of Rice. the Engineers of Georgia Tech, and the Quakers of Pennsylvania. While Baylor in the Southwest, Ala bama and Duke in the South, Califor- MIA and Santa Clara of the Far West, and Pitt, Fordham. Villa Nova and Lafayette in the East struck new blows yesterday in behalf of an unbeaten season and the two Ivy League” Jug gernauts, Yale and Dartmouth, bat tied to thrilling go draw. it remanned for these four to steal the big headlines. Given small chance in advance CAL culations, Notre Dame pushed over a quick touchdown against Minnesota and then set up so stalwart a defense that the Gophers never could get 60 ing and dropped their second game of the season, 7–6. Georgia Tech, rebounding from last weeks rout by Auburn, knocked VAN derbilt’s Commodores off the unbeaten and united list with decisive 14–0 victory.
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 65% to win. Notre Dame pulled the upset.
The series
Every Notre Dame–Minnesota gameNotre Dame leads 4–0–1 in five meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1938 | Notre Dame 19, Minnesota 0 | |
| 1937 | Notre Dame 7, Minnesota 6 | |
| 1927 | Minnesota 7, Notre Dame 7 | |
| 1926 | Notre Dame 20, Minnesota 7 | |
| 1925 | Notre Dame 19, Minnesota 7 |
Around this game
Notre Dame
- Next gamevs. PittsburghNov. 6, 1937
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1937
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Minnesota
- Next gameat IowaNov. 6, 1937
- SeasonMinnesota in 1937
- ProgramMinnesota history and records

