Michigan at Iowa

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  Evening star, October 21, 1951, page 42

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  $1,000 See Michigan Shut Out Iowa, 20 IOWA CITY. Iowa. Oct. 90 Michigan, defending Big Ten football champion. belted Iowa 21–⁠0. today to the dismay of q record breaking homecoming crowd of 53,050. The Wolverines pushed Iowa into a hole at the very start, then struck for touchdowns in each OF the first two quarters. Iowa, although it had an edge in the statistics, had only two good scoring chances and miffed both. There was no hesitation on Michigan’s part in the scoring department. Bill Putisch returned a punt IL yards to the Iowa At, Ia Peterson-to-Lowell Perry pass. good for 35 yards, carried Michigan to the four. and Putisch scored two plays later. Perry started Michigan to its second touchdown with a 39-yard punt return to the Michigan 48 A toss from Peterson to Fred Pickard gave SO yards in a VOL VERNE smash to the 18 and they kept going until Peterson counted from 112 yards out. Michigan, playing it safe behind some fancy punting by Bill Billings. didn’t score again until Peterson ran 20 yards for the third quarter marker.

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 22, 1951, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES FAR WEST FAR WEST Illinois 27-Washington 20 Southern Cal 21-California IA Stanford 21-Santa Clara IA Washington State 26 - Oregon State 13 UCLA 41-Oregon 0 SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 20 - Texas A & M IA Oklahoma 33-Kansas 21 Rice 28-Southern Methodist 2 MIDWEST Northwestern 16-Navy 7 Michigan 21-Iowa 0 Notre Dame 33-Pittsburgh O Indiana 32-Ohio State 10. SOUTH LSU 7-Georgia 0 Kentucky 35-Villanova 13 Mississippi 25-Tulane 6 Virginia 34-VMI IA Duke 55-VPI 6 Georgia Tech 27-Auburn 2 EAST San Francisco 32-Fordham 26 Penn 28-Columbia 13 Princeton 60-Lafayette 7 Carnegie Tech 39-Allegheny O

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Michigan leads 45–⁠16–⁠4 in 65 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.