Nebraska at Minnesota

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1938, page 33

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  GOPHERS’ POWER SHREDS HUSKERS Only Break Gets Score for Nebraska as Minnesota Triumphs, 1877. ~ tne ASSoc1Ated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. IA power house Minnesota outfit thundered over Nebraska’s Cornhuskers today, winning l6 to Z. mainly through q blasting irst-han drive that netted two touchdowns. Forty-s thousand persons saw the Golden Gophers spoil Coach BifY Jones record in not having lost seasons opener. The Cornhuskers battled desperate ly, but they managed to score only through q spectacular play that saw Halfback Jack Dodd grab a third quarter Minnesota tumble and race 81 yards for . touchdown. Minnesota Scores Quickly. 1t was too much smashing power that Minnesota produced right at the start that settled the contest. In seven plays Coach Bernie Bierman’s IS Big Ten champions ripped through for the first score three minutes after the kickoff, with Wilbur Moore slash ing nine yards around end over the goal. It later added q touchdown and safety. Moore. who paced Minnesota to q Is to 0 victory over Washington, Huskies last week, again led the parade and was a big factor in thu IS first downs registered to four fol Nebraska. His fourth-quarter pas interception spoiled a Cornhuskel scoring threat. The Gopher line shattered tht Cornhuskers’ offense so badly tina they went into the fourth quarter with only two first downs to theil credit.

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  The Redwood gazette, Redwood Falls, Minn., October 6, 1938, page 1

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  WALLACE LAUTERBACH, for mer Redwood Falls High school player and later a member of the Marquette university squad, play ed three quarters as quarterback for Army Saturday against Virginia Tech at West Point, New York, and made a touchdown besides intercepting two forward passes. Army won the game 80 to 0. Meanwhile at Memorial Stadium, Bob Paffrath played a few minutes in both halves against the Cornhuskers as Minnesota doWned Nebraska 16 to 7. On still another gridiron, Cap tain Mervale Wolverton’s VIM ona Teachers college team defeat ed Bemidji IA to 0. Wolverton plays a guard position.

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Minnesota leads 38–⁠25–⁠2 in 65 meetings, counting the 45 since this game.