Minnesota at Michigan
Saturday, October 25, 1941. Minnesota kept the Little Brown Jug Share
No. 1 Minnesota beat No. 3 Michigan 7–0. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Michigan led the series 18–12–2.
FinalHigh 53°F, low 34°FAttendance 84,658
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 26, 1941, page 40
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Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 26, 1941, page 1
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85,753 Watch Gophers Beat Michigan Again Wolverines Drop Two Passes on the I-Yard Line and Lose 9th in Row to Minnesota, 10 ANN ARBOR, Oct. 25.-Deep and gaping is the wound Of Mchigan’s Wolverine tonight Once the proud and poised Golden Gopher from the North has sashed its way to bitter football triumph Before of the most coorfu football crowds to witness grid duel this country Minnesota beat Michigan to 0, this afternoon to make 1t eight victories in cherished Harry Newmans the bad back Gopherand Maize and Blue Minnesota. multitude OF ,753. stadium period fnghu desperately trying in the last quarter Somewhere has written that the makes mistakes nothing Michigan today everlasting they up flag Of surrender They crawed off to lick their wounds and in the dressing after the gamee had to know the mental torture
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
- MINNESOTA TOPS MICHIGAN, 7-0The Gophers stop the aggressive Wolverines before record crowd of 85,000. Michigan's first defeat of the season!
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)
Michigan 62% to win. Minnesota won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Minnesota–Michigan gameMichigan leads 78–26–3 in 107 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.
| 2026 | Minnesota 20, Michigan 14 | |
| 2024 | Michigan 27, Minnesota 24 | |
| 2023 | Michigan 52, Minnesota 10 | |
| 2020 | Michigan 49, Minnesota 24 | |
| 2017 | Michigan 33, Minnesota 10 | |
| 2015 | Michigan 29, Minnesota 26 |
Around this game
Minnesota
- Next gamevs. NorthwesternNov. 1, 1941
- SeasonMinnesota in 1941
- ProgramMinnesota history and records
Michigan
- Next gameat IllinoisNov. 1, 1941
- SeasonMichigan in 1941
- ProgramMichigan history and records

