California at Minnesota

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  Evening star, October 5, 1952, page 67

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  California 0utcIasses Minnesota, 1913, as johnson Scores “a MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 4.-Halfback Don johnson, who scored four touchdowns, headed a host of brilliant ball carriers as Cali fornia outclassed Minnesota today in their intersectional football game, 43 to 13, before 56,708. 1t was the Gophers’ second straight loss of the season to a Pacific Coast team. johnson launched his great performance by taking the ball on the Bears first offensive play and dashing “a yards for a touch down. This play came just 43 seconds after Minnesota had opened the scoring on a 44-yard run by Paul Giel, the Big Ten all-offenSe rec ord holder. Tom Keough kicked the first of his six straight conversions to give the Bears a TO lead with only three minutes of the game gone. Each team got another touch down in the first period, in which the Gophers showed their only real offensive punch. The Bears took full command after about five minutes of the second period, scoring five more touchdowns dur ing the rest of the game while holding Minnesota scoreless. The score might have been much higher except for a number of penalties and fumbles which stopped California drives, some deep in Gopher territory. Johnson piled up 157 yards in IA tries. The rest of his touch downs came on short plunges. California – IA IA 14–⁠49

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California leads 5–⁠2 in seven meetings, counting the five since this game.