Ohio State at Minnesota
Saturday, October 21, 1939 Share
No. 10 Ohio State beat Minnesota 23–20. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–2 as played.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 50°FAttendance 52,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, October 23, 1939, page 5
Read the text
OHIO STATE NOSES OVER MINNESOTA Fiffy-five Thousand Fans Witness Big Ten Top sy-TurvY Game MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Oct. 23.- Ohio States roaring Buckeyes pitched three touchdowns on passes and resisted a last quarter drive that netted one score and missed another, to win topsy turvy game last Saturday afternoon from Min nesota 23 to 20. The game was played before a crowd of 55.000 spectators.
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.
On the newsreel
- OHIO STATE TRIPS MINNESOTA55,000 see the "Buckeyes" score on three touchdown passes and then hold the "Gophers" in the final minutes of play, to win 23-20
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Minnesota 61% to win. Ohio State won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Ohio State–Minnesota gameOfficially, Ohio State leads 48–7; as played, 49–7 in 56 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.
| 2025 | Ohio State 42, Minnesota 3 | |
| 2023 | Ohio State 37, Minnesota 3 | |
| 2021 | Ohio State 45, Minnesota 31 | |
| 2018 | Ohio State 30, Minnesota 14 | |
| 2015 | Ohio State 28, Minnesota 14 | |
| 2014 | Ohio State 31, Minnesota 24 |
Around this game
Ohio State
- Next gamevs. CornellOct. 28, 1939
- SeasonOhio State in 1939
- ProgramOhio State history and records
Minnesota
- Next gamevs. NorthwesternNov. 4, 1939
- SeasonMinnesota in 1939
- ProgramMinnesota history and records