Northwestern at Minnesota

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 2, 1941, page 40

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  MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. Mime sofas mighty mite-147-pound Bud Higgins-teok the con rois for one quick scoring drive today to send the Golden Gopher express rolling along the Big Ten and national championship roadway with we’ll earned 8 TO 7 victory over North Westerns Wildcats. With his team trailing 10 in the third period, the diminutiVe Gopher back streaked Al yards for the touchdown that ran Minnesota victory string to IA straight and made the victors stronger favorite than ever to take the Western Conference title. That game breaking play came so suddenly that the 64464 spec tators-largest crowd in Gopher history-hardlv knew what had hap pened as they watched Higgins streak across the goal line. Five points to the bad after get ting two points on safety and then seeing Northwestern score on second-period pass by Otto Graham. Minnesota took the ball at North Westerns Al after a poor Wildcat punt by Bill De Correvont Bob Sweiger failed to gain and the Gophers. literally racing to positon. caught Northwestern fiat footed. Higgins Speeds to Win. Center Gene Flick whipped the center pass to Higgins and the mite was around right end and down the sidelines. crossing the goal line untouched for the score that wrecked Northwesterns last hope for the Big Ten crown This battle-as savagely waged as any Ct a hard fought series-Was packed with breath-taking sur prises from start TO finish. Not the least was Northwestern halftime lead of 7 to 2 after the Wildcats had been widely outplayed through the first two periods. And after scoring the winning touchdown Higgins came up with another thrilling ball-carrying performance which almost sparked the Gophers to a wider margin of victory and one which would more correctly reflect their superiority, particularly in the line The game-played on field kept in good shape by canvas through a heavy morning snow-started out

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 2, 1941, page 18

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  NORTHWESTERN GOPHERS CLOSING u. d. Defeats Jaspers, $50; Madarik Stars with the aid of the wind. that was downed by Charley McNulty or the 5. Instead of punting out. Man haitian tried to run and this poor choice proved fatal. Frank Kiesecker, whose punting was largely responsible for Man hattan’s 9–⁠6 upset of Villanova last week, was thrown by George Reno and Bob Burke on the 2-yaro line. On the next play Banonis blasted his way through and tackled Tiano behind the goal line for a safety. Kicking off from his 20, Fraser Patrick Donlan booted one outside on Detroit’s %. The Titans marched from here to. their first touchdown. Madarik and AL Schmidt alternated hitting the line and a 7-yard pass, Madarik to Howard Heating, put Detroit on Manhattan’s 25. Schmidt spun off center to the 20 but Detroit drew a 15-yard penalty back to the 40 for holding. After Bob Kenne made l, NADIA rik faded back to pass. Link caught the ball on the II, eluded two tacklers, and ran the rest of the way unmolested. Link then place kicked the extra point.

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Minnesota leads 56–⁠38–⁠5 in 99 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.