Minnesota at Iowa
Saturday, November 18, 1944. Minnesota kept Floyd of Rosedale Share
Minnesota beat Iowa 46–0. It was their 38th meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 28–9 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 47°F, low 36°FAttendance 11,200
In the newspapers

Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 19, 1944, page 16
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Iowa Loses To Gophers $50 Victory Blanks Hawks in Big Ten IOWA CITY. Nov. Is up Minnesota combined speed and power with an effective aerial At tack today 10 whip the Iowa HsvkeyeS. 46 10 O. ending a dis aStrouS Big Ten season for Coach SIP Nadigan’s club, which fin I>hcd without a conference VIC tory The GopherS took advantage Of numerous misplays by the young Hawkcyes 10 produce the seven touchdown victory the worst defeat Iowa has suffered at the hands Of Minnesota since 1886 when the IowanS were whipped, 50 10 o, at Minneapolis. Seven Gophers. four OF them reserves. shared in the scoring. The Hawkeyes failed TO produce any thing like a scoring punch after the Gophers turned on their power in the ninth play. RUNS Al YARDS Vic Kulbitsky. veteran fullback, accounted for the first touchdown in the opening period. plunging over from the ! after Red Will liams had scampered AZ to set up the play. + Before the quarter ended. the GophcrS had two more touch downs, one on a 22-yard run by / Williams after Minnesota recovcred an Iowa tumble The other resulted from 34-yard pass from Bob Kasper 10 Dick Schmitz after an Iowa lateral had back / fired. Minnesota. with reserves play ing most of the period, added another tally in the second when Dale Rappana plowed across from the I, following Bob Kasper’s % yard jaunt which set up the scoring play. SCORE ON AERIAL Minnesota struck through the air again in the third when Williams found Bill Juhl in the clear for a 43-yard scoring pass. The winners marched So yards 10 score in the final quarter with Tom Gates covering the final 10 yards. The final tally was set up when the Gophers recovered a / tumble on the kickoff. Bud / Gullickson plunged across for the touchdown from the l after an 1S-yard sprint. Minnesota rolled 3o7 yards rushing TO Iowa’s Is, and added l1S yards more through the air

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 19, 1944, page 19
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Camp peaY’s Power Minnesota Runs 0veI SinksN. {. Navy, 1877 Helpless Iowa, 46–0 CHAPEL HILL, N. c., Nov. 49, Camp Peary, led by Charlie Price, unleashed its latent power in the final quarter today and defeated N. C. Navy Preflight, 10 to 7, can ceiling a great performance by the Cloudbusters’ Otto Graham. Peary power flashed briefly for one touchdown In the third period then smashed over two more in the fourth to hand the Busters their second defeat. Graham threw 26 passes and COM pleted IA for 127 yards and intercepted three Peary aerials and ran them back for SO yards, but the Seabee power held the Prefiight team, which previously had lost only to cambridge Navy, to minus SIS yards on the ground. The Preflight touchdown came in the first period on q 1O-yard pass from Graham to Melbourne Sheehan.

The Ypsilanti daily press, Ypsilanti, Mich., November 20, 1944, page 1 (results column)
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Army, Navy Preparing For Clash Plenty of Other Tits New York, Nov. 20-AP-Army anC Navy hibernate this week end in preparation for their Dec. 2 clash but there’s plenty of football with unbeaten Ohio State entertain ing Michigan. Notre Dame invading Georgia Tech and Southern Cali fornia banging into UCLA. That high powered trio of games Is listed for Saturday. Thursdays Thanksgiving Day menu is almost as attractive with unpredictable Kansas host to Tulsa. Missouri and Kansas clashing at Kansas City and Charlotte watching South Carolina a. Wake Forest. Navy, using four full teams but with little Hal Hamberg the star, tuned up for the transplanted SER vice clash by banking Purdue. 80 TO 0, Saturday. Army got lot OF bad football out OF its system the same day while crushing Pennsylvania, 81 to Z. Glenn Davis got loose for three Cadet touchdowns Out in the Middlewest, mean Will both the Buckeyes and VOL verines had similar success in the Il st outings before their Big Ten title-deciding fray. Ohio State came from behind to subdue the Illinois swifties, 26 to IL, and Michigan sweat out IA to decision over the stubborn Badgers. Southern California almost in sured itself repeat appearance In the Rose Bowl by crushing Califormia, 80 TO 0, and now needs only a win over UCLA to make it official. The latter club romped over A. A. Stages College of Pacific, 81 to Z. Mississippi State saw its hopes for an unbeaten season go down when It’s star back, Shorty McWilliams, suffered an early injury and the Staters bowed to Alabama, 10 TO 0. The Crimson Tide now is In line for bowl bid with a completed schedule OF four victories, two ties and defeat by Georgia. Georgia Tech kept in the lime light with to 6 triumph over Louisiana State while Notre Dame got ready for it’s Dixie invasion with q to victory over North western even though bruised Bob Kelly sat on the bench. Iowa pre-flight punished Missouri,, 81 to I. and now meets Iowa. 46 to 0 victim. of Minnesota’s power. The Gophers are paired with Wisconsin. Randolph Field massacred Southwestern of Texas, a. narilIn A In Base as its opposition. Tennessee boosted its bowl claims with q to II victory over Temple and takes on Kentucky this week end. The Wildcats showed surprising strength in humblinS West Virginia, 40 to Q. Duke an. nexed its third straight triumph by a “a to margin over South Caro- ! lima and now faces its climatic game with North Carolina, who lost | TO Yale’s .unbeaten forces In a | Is to fray. Virginia. beaten only once In seven games. is the next rival for tho Ellis while Cornell, II to IL winner over Dartmouth when Paul Robson. Jr., converted late touch down. goes against Penn. Texas Christian. now the South western Conference leader follow ing its I TO verdict over Texas, meets Rice, erstwhile kingpin. The Owls were spilled by Texas A & NJ, 10 to s. Holy Cross lost its sec ond game OF the year to the strong Melville, r. l., PIT Base outfit. cambridge. Md, entertaining bowl bids from all sections Of the country. battered Camp Lejeune, 33 to 6. and now is booked with Camp Peary. Oklahoma, which got strange hold on another Big Six title by defeating Kansas in a 20 to Q struggle has a statewise feud with / Oklahoma 4 g. NJ
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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Minnesota–Iowa gameOfficially, 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 81 since this game.
| 2025 | Iowa 41, Minnesota 3 | |
| 2024 | Iowa 31, Minnesota 14 | |
| 2023 | Minnesota 12, Iowa 10 | |
| 2022 | Iowa 13, Minnesota 10 | |
| 2021 | Iowa 27, Minnesota 22 | |
| 2020 | Iowa 35, Minnesota 7 |
Around this game
Minnesota
- Next gameat WisconsinNov. 25, 1944
- SeasonMinnesota in 1944
- ProgramMinnesota history and records
Iowa
- Next gameat Iowa Pre-FlightNov. 25, 1944
- SeasonIowa in 1944
- ProgramIowa history and records

