Michigan State at Michigan
Saturday, September 29, 1951 Share
No. 2 Michigan State beat No. 17 Michigan 25–0. It was their 44th meeting; after it, Michigan led the series 33–8–3.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 33°FAttendance 97,239
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, October 1, 1951, page 3 (results column)
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Coast Offering Big Doings in Football Doings SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1–4A- Football offers bang-up far west ern college program, next weekend, exceeding even last weeks bell ringing slate. Championship aspirations will ride on the outcome of the coast conference clash between the South ern California Trojans and the Washington Huskies at Seattle, Sat- urday. From a league standpoint, it is the most important engage ment of the day. The Trojans won their conference opener from Washington State and divided a pair with service elevens last Saturday. Their varsity beat San Diego Navy 4l-? and the re- serves lost to the Camp Pendleton Marines, 27-l7. Washington will be making it’s initial bid in the title race. It took hAAI AiiCood1C v Ol lNllllllCoObd ZO-ZU ldSp week ia Minneapolis. The intersectional calendar fore casts red-hot action. Washington State touches off the weeks cross country rivalry in contest with reportedly tough Oklahoma A. and M. It will be a Friday night affair at Spokane. WS.C. chalked up a good win over Santa Clara, 34–2O last Saturday. California’s unbeaten, unscored upon Bears, return from trium- phant 35–0 visit to Pennsylvania’s stronghold for a home town Berkeley joust with the Minnesota Gophers. It’s set for Saturday. University of California at Los Angeles, whipped on it’s road trip by Illinois, 27–13, figures to break into the win column finally as host to independent Santa Clara. In its opener two weeks ago, U.CL.A. dropped a 21-l4 decision to Texas A. and M. Oregon’s improving team turned back Arizona, 39–21 last week but will faceup to much stronger oppo- sition when it comes to Stockton to meet College of Pacific, Saturday night. Stanford, yet to live up to its gridiron potentialities, journeys to Ann Arbor for a meeting with Michigan In winning from San Jose State, 26–13, Stanford played an in and out game. Michigan’s 25–0 loss to Michigan State last week bolstered Indian hopes considerably
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)
Michigan 57% to win. Michigan State won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Michigan State–Michigan gameMichigan leads 75–38–5 in 118 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.
Around this game
Michigan State
- Next gameat Ohio StateOct. 6, 1951
- SeasonMichigan State in 1951
- ProgramMichigan State history and records
Michigan
- Next gamevs. StanfordOct. 6, 1951
- SeasonMichigan in 1951
- ProgramMichigan history and records

