Montana at Idaho

Saturday, October 28, 1939. Montana took the Little Brown Stein from Idaho

Montana beat Idaho 13–⁠0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Idaho led the series 16–⁠4.

AwayMontana3–⁠6 in 1939
13
HomeIdaho2–⁠6 in 1939
0

FinalHigh 58°F, low 41°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: torn Warnings Up for Wasngton Big -Four in Grid Struggles This Week Football Scores

    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 The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores October 28

    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.

Idaho leads 39–⁠22–⁠1 in 62 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Idaho 42, Montana 35
2025Montana 41, Idaho 30
2023Montana 23, Idaho 21
2022Idaho 30, Montana 23
2021Montana 34, Idaho 14
2019Montana 42, Idaho 17

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