Nebraska at Minnesota

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 26, 1954, page 67

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  Gophers Stumble to Win Over Nebraska. 1917 MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. Is P).- Minnesota stumbled through a maze of blown chances in the first half to subdue Nebraska. 1877, today on two perfectly timed off-tackle shots by Quarterback Geno Cappeletti and Pinky Mcnamara daring open field sprints. Cappelletti raced nine yards on a split T keeper for a first quarter touchdown and sped Is yards to set the props for the Gopher’s decisive score in the third quarter. Pinky Mcnamara, a sophomore halfback running mate of brother Bob cleared the way for one touchdown with A. yard punt runback and banged over for the third in the dying seconds of the game. Nebraska, a two-touchdown underdog, rocked Minnesota on Ron Clark’s 48-yard touchdown sprint midway in the second quarter for a 7–⁠6 lead at half time. Cappelletti’s 16-yard scamper followed Pinky McNamara’s brilliant punt return to carry Min nesota to the two, from where Bob Mcnamara slammed over. The Gophers added their final touchdown on a 59-yard drive. Nebraska scoring: Touchdown-Clark Minnesota -------6 0 6 7–⁠19 Nebraska scoring: Touchdown. Clark Conversion-Loehr Minnesota scoring-Touchdown pelletti. Bob Mcnamara, Pinkv McNamara onversion-Cappelletti.

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.

Minnesota leads 38–⁠25–⁠2 in 65 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.