Wisconsin at Minnesota

Saturday, November 24, 1951. Wisconsin kept Paul Bunyan’s Axe

No. 8 Wisconsin beat Minnesota 30–⁠6. It was their 61st meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 35–⁠19–⁠5 in the games on file.

Away8Wisconsin7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1951
30
HomeMinnesota2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1951
6

FinalHigh 17°F, low -6°FAttendance 52,177

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Saturdays Stars

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 26, 1951, page 14 (results column)

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    Saturdays Stars HANK LAURICELLA, Tennessee–Gained 1873 yards rushing in II attempts to lead his team to a $50 victory over Kentucky. He threw one touchdown pass and averaged 34.5 yards on four punts. SAMMY REBECCA, Illinois Kicked 17-yard field goal to give his team a 80 triumph over Northwestern that enabled Illinois to win the Big Ten cham pionship and a trip to the Rose Bowl. JOE VARAITlS, Penn-Scored the games only touchdown on 35-yard run as Penn defeated Cornell, TO. He accounted for ia yards rushing in 81 carries. DICK LALLA, Colgate-Passed for three touchdoWns and set up another as his school doWned Rutgers, 26–⁠11. Lalla completed II out of % passes for 246 yards. ALAN AMECHE, Wisconsin, Tailed two touchdowns and racked up 1856 yards on the ground to set a new Big Ten mark OF 1856 yards in sparkling his team to a 30–⁠6 success over Minnesota. BOB CAREY, Michigan State Caught two touchdown passes on plays of AZ and % yards and booted three extra points as Mich Il igan State trounced Colorado. 45–⁠7. MEL ROACH, Virginia-Scored one touchdown, passed for another and set up two more in his schools 46–⁠0 rout of William and Mary. ED MODZELEWSKI, Maryland -Rammed his way for 131 yards rushing in IA attempts and scored two touchdowns in Maryland’s SAT- conquest of West Virginia. ! JOHNNY LATTNER, Notre Dame-Scored two touchdowns in the final period as Notre Dame rallied to tie Iowa, 1920. t LAMAR McHAN, Arkansas Tossed three touchdown passes in pacing his team to a 24–⁠7 victory over Tulsa. RAY McKOWN, Texas Christian Ran Is yards for one touchdown and passed 43 yards for another score to spearhead his club to E22–⁠6 win over Rice. He garnered 124 yards passing and punted for , an average of Alb yards. j JOHNNY Papa, California Crossed the goal line twice as | California upset Stanford, 20–⁠7. | PAUL CAMERON, UCLA-Carlried the bulk of his teams offense as UCLA tripped Southern Cali fornia, 21–⁠7. He picked up 1913 | yards passing and rushing, and tossed one touchdown aerial. BUD ROFFLER, Washington State-Played the entire game. rolling up 1872 yards rushing and ~ passing as Washington State shaded Washington. 27–⁠25.

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)

Wisconsin 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Minnesota leads 64–⁠63–⁠8; as played, 63–⁠62–⁠8 in the 133 games on file; the official count covers all 135 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Minnesota 17, Wisconsin 7
2024Minnesota 24, Wisconsin 7
2023Wisconsin 28, Minnesota 14
2022Minnesota 23, Wisconsin 16
2021Minnesota 23, Wisconsin 13
2020Wisconsin 20, Minnesota 17

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