Montana at Idaho
Saturday, October 28, 1939. Montana took the Little Brown Stein from Idaho Share
Montana beat Idaho 13–0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Idaho led the series 16–4.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 41°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 30, 1939, page 17
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torn Warnings Up for Wasngton Big -Four in Grid Struggles This Week Football Scores Canisius. II: St. Vincent. 0. Pacific Lutheran. 81: Linneld. 13. San Francisco State. o; California Poly, 0. La Sale. 81: Ct; Joseph,s, Q. Portland. ID: ST. Mary’s (CalifD. 0. st. Bonaventure, Z; Mount St. Mary’s O. Late Saturday Scores. Alfred. IS: Ithaca, 6. Scranton. 20 Marshall. o. Knox. Z: Beloit. o. Omaha. IA, Morningside. 0. Temple Teachers 21: Texas Mines z. Fresno State, 21 San Francisco. 2. Montana. 13: Idaho 0. Pomona. -; San Diego State. g.. Nevada. 3; California Aggies, q. Carson-Neyman. 6: Maryville Teachers. o. Dixie Pro League. Richmond Arrows, Il Norfolk Sham rocks g. Portsmouth Cubs. 10: Newport News Builders, g.

The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 30, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores October 28 October 28 Nebraska 25-Kansas State 9 Auburn 6-Georgia Tech T Iowa l9-Wisconsin 13 Illinois 0-Northwestern 13 Alabama 7-Mississippi State Tulane 18-Mississippa 6 Clemson 15-Navy 2 Notre Dame 7-Carnegie 6 North Carolina 30-Penn 6 Cornell 20-Ohio State 14 Yale 7-Michigan 27 Dartmouth 16-HarVard o Pitt 13-Fordham 27 Lake Forest O-Duke 6 Stanford 5-Washington 8 Washington State 0 Oregon State 13 Oregon G. UCLA 16 Southern Cal 26-California 0 Purdue 6-Santa Clara 13 Montana 13-Idaho 0
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)
Idaho 71% to win. Montana pulled the upset.
The series
Every Montana–Idaho gameIdaho leads 39–22–1 in 62 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.
| 2026 | Idaho 42, Montana 35 | |
| 2025 | Montana 41, Idaho 30 | |
| 2023 | Montana 23, Idaho 21 | |
| 2022 | Idaho 30, Montana 23 | |
| 2021 | Montana 34, Idaho 14 | |
| 2019 | Montana 42, Idaho 17 |
Around this game
Montana
- Next gameat WashingtonNov. 4, 1939
- SeasonMontana in 1939
- ProgramMontana history and records
Idaho
- Next gamevs. Utah StateNov. 4, 1939
- SeasonIdaho in 1939
- ProgramIdaho history and records

