Nebraska at Minnesota

Saturday, November 8, 1941

No. 2 Minnesota beat Nebraska 9–⁠0. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 17–⁠4–⁠2.

AwayNebraska4–⁠5 in 1941
0
Home2Minnesota8–⁠0 in 1941
9

FinalHigh 31°F, low 28°FAttendance 42,893

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: ESNsE Gophers' Aerid|s Beat Nebraska

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 9, 1941, page 1

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    ESNsE Gophers’ Aerid|s Beat Nebraska MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. S.-Min, nesota’s Golden Gophers. their power game stalled by the combi’ nation of an alert Nebraska detense and an injufy-fiddled squad resorted TO other means here today to win the fifteenth consecutive game by defeating the Cornhuskers. go. Stopped short In their drives when the chips were down, the Gophers took TO the air TO score the games lone touchdown in the second quarter and then added a field goal to the total in the final period. Liliputian Bud Higgins spanked the Western Conference champions to victory today. He completed three passes. two to halfback Bill Garnaas. then ran to the Ne braska 1-yard line to set up the Gopher touchdown. Bob Sweiger barreled over for the score but Garnaas missed the conversion try. After a scoreless third period Minnesota came pounding back into scoring territory a few min 1utes later, however. and this time il was Garnaas who elected him. self 10 try for the three points. His kick from the 10-yard line was good.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BAIL @ R{3SW{5 IFS Mr

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 10, 1941, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BAIL @ R{3SW{5 IFS Mr The following are final scores If principal football games played last Saturday afternoon. Fordham O. Pittsburgh l3. Missouri 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Detroit T; Marquette 6. Cornell 21: Yale 2. West Virginia 21; Kansas o. Notre Dame 20; Navy 13. Penn State 34; Syracuse l9. Minnesota 9; Nebraska 0. Lafayette 16; Rutgers 0. Harvard 20; Army 6. Dartmouth 20; Princeton 13. Temple IA; Villanova 13. Holy Cross 13; Brown 0. Boston College 26; Wake Forest 6. Ohio State 46; Wisconsin 34. Duke 56; Davidson 0. Iowa 21; Illinois O. Georgia 19; Florida 3. Georgetown 26; Maryland 0. Pennsylvania 19; Columbia 16. Michigan State 0; Purdue 0. Kansas State 3; South Carolina 0. Virginia Tech IA; North Caro- lima State 13. s.-... .s. Alabama 19; Tulane IA Virginia 27; Washington and Lee T. Georgia Tech 20; Kentucky 13. Cincinnati 20; Carnegie Tech 0. Northwestern 20; Indiana l4. Mississippi State IA; Auburn ‘. Tennessee 28; Howard G. Vanderbilt 20; SeWanee O. Stanford 13; Southern Califor- mia 0. University of Washington 13, California 6. UCLA 0; Oregon State 19. Washington State 26; 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.

On the newsreel

  • MINNESOTA BEATS NEBRASKA, 9-043,000 fans see the "Golden Gophers" chalk up their 15th victory in a row, although they were held to only nine points by a determined Nebraska team. Higgins and Garnaas score for the winnersUniversal Newsreel, November 10, 1941. Catalog record at the National Archives

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)

Minnesota 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Minnesota leads 38–⁠25–⁠2 in 65 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Minnesota 24, Nebraska 6
2023Minnesota 13, Nebraska 10
2022Minnesota 20, Nebraska 13
2021Minnesota 30, Nebraska 23
2020Minnesota 24, Nebraska 17
2019Minnesota 34, Nebraska 7

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