Wisconsin at Minnesota

Saturday, November 25, 1939

Minnesota beat Wisconsin 23–⁠6. It was their 49th meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 27–⁠15–⁠5 in the games on file.

AwayWisconsin1–⁠6–⁠1 in 1939
6
HomeMinnesota3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1939
23

FinalHigh 42°F, low 35°FAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL ScoREs

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 27, 1939, page 2 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL ScoREs The following are final scores ot big games played last Saturday af- ternoon: Oklahoma 2; Nebraska 13. Auburn ?; Georgia 0. Rice o: Texas Christian 21. Iowa 2; Northwestern 2, tie. Sewanee 0; Tulane 52. California 32; Stanford IA. Oregon State IS; UCL.A. 13. tie Yale 20; Harvard T. Kansas State T; Boston College 38 Cornell 26, Penn 0. Pittsburgh O., Penn State 10. Ohio State IA; Michigan 21. Duke 28; North Carolina State 0 Purdue ‘; Indiana 6. Georgia Tech 21; Florida T. Missouri 20; Kansas 0. Wisconsin 6; Minnesota 23. Baylor 0; South. Methodist 21. Southern Calf 20; Notre Dame 12 Illinois 46; Chicago 0. Villanova T; Manhattan O. Colgate 0; Columbia o; tic. Bucknell 6; George Wash T. Temple T; Michigan State Is. Duquesne 22; Carnegie Tech ‘. Navy 0; Princeton 28. Clemson IA; Furman 3.

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 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Minnesota leads 64–⁠63–⁠8; as played, 63–⁠62–⁠8 in the 133 games on file; the official count covers all 135 meetings, counting the 86 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Minnesota 17, Wisconsin 7
2024Minnesota 24, Wisconsin 7
2023Wisconsin 28, Minnesota 14
2022Minnesota 23, Wisconsin 16
2021Minnesota 23, Wisconsin 13
2020Wisconsin 20, Minnesota 17

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