Michigan at Minnesota

Saturday, October 28, 1961. Minnesota kept the Little Brown Jug

Minnesota beat Michigan 23–⁠20. It was their 52nd meeting; after it, Michigan led the series 32–⁠17–⁠3.

AwayMichigan6–⁠3 in 1961
20
HomeMinnesota8–⁠2 in 1961
23

FinalHigh 61°F, low 48°F, 1.09 in. of rainAttendance 63,898

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Gophers Come From Behind To Edge Michigan, 23-20

    Evening star, October 29, 1961, page 28

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    Gophers Come From Behind To Edge Michigan, 23–⁠20 from the 10-yard line but the score was nullified by a penalty and Michigan held on the nine. Dave Raimey sparked Michigan to two Of its three touch downs, his 27-yard broken field run in the second quarter giving the wolverines a 1870 lead and his four-yard jaunt in the third period wrapping up the Michigan scoring. Bill Tunnicliff scored the other touchdown early in the game on an eight-yard run after a Minnesota tumble. Minnesota’s first touchdown before the 63,s98 home coming crowd came in the second quarter when Stephens rolled out ran into a pile of Michigan plyaers, broke loose and then rambled 63-yards for the score.

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)

Minnesota 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Michigan leads 78–⁠26–⁠3 in 107 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Minnesota 20, Michigan 14
2024Michigan 27, Minnesota 24
2023Michigan 52, Minnesota 10
2020Michigan 49, Minnesota 24
2017Michigan 33, Minnesota 10
2015Michigan 29, Minnesota 26

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