Minnesota at Iowa

Saturday, November 18, 1939. Iowa took Floyd of Rosedale from Minnesota

No. 15 Iowa beat No. 20 Minnesota 13–⁠9. It was their 33rd meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 23–⁠9 in the games on file.

Away20Minnesota3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1939
9
Home15Iowa6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1939
13

FinalHigh 51°F, low 44°FAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: ! T0UCHD0WN5 WIN FOR IOWA Minnesota Stunned Safur. day by Work of EIev- en Iron Men

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 20, 1939, page 5

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    ! T0UCHD0WN5 WIN FOR IOWA Minnesota Stunned Safur. day by Work of EIev- en Iron Men IOWA CITY, Nov. 20. = Iowa s Ton Men. the fairy tale Iads of. 1889 football, came roaring l ack last Saturday afternoon with [ wo last qu”rter touchdowns in an lmost unbelievable finish to stun Minnesota l3 to before 50,000 spec tators afear being battered and beat en for hree quarters.

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, November 20, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Football Final November 18 Cornell 35-Dartmouth 6 Princeton 13-Yale 2 North Carolina 3-Duke 13 Carnegie Tech 0-Holycross 21 Nebraska 14-Pitt 13 Michigan 19-Penn IT St. Marys 0-Firdham IA Illinois 0-Ohio State 21 Tulane 25-Columbia 0 Northwestern 0-Norte Dame Oklahoma 6-Missouri ‘ Minnesota 9-IoWa 13 Georgia Tech 6-Alabama 0 Vanderbilt 0-Tennessee Is Texas Christian 19-Texas 25 Texas A and M 19-Rice 0 Oregon State 21-California 0 Washington State 7-Stanford Santa Clara 0-UcLA 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)

Minnesota 59% to win. Iowa won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Minnesota leads 63–⁠54–⁠2; as played, 62–⁠54–⁠2 in the 118 games on file; the official count covers all 119 meetings, counting the 86 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Iowa 41, Minnesota 3
2024Iowa 31, Minnesota 14
2023Minnesota 12, Iowa 10
2022Iowa 13, Minnesota 10
2021Iowa 27, Minnesota 22
2020Iowa 35, Minnesota 7

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