Minnesota vs. UCLA
Monday, January 1, 1962, Rose Bowl Share
No. 7 Minnesota beat UCLA 21–3. It was their first meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 1–0.
FinalTV: NBC (first color broadcast)Attendance 98,214Referee: R.E. Meyer (Big Ten) (split crew: Big Ten, AAWU)
MVP Sandy StephensWikipedia
In the newspapers
Evening star, District of Columbia, January 4, 1962, page 53
Read the text
OkIohomo’s S Comeback Rated Footballs Best Syracuse, then lost to Iowa and Duke. For Louisiana State and Minnesota, it was a case OF getting away poorly, but recovering quickly. Rice knocked of LSU in the season opener, but the Tigers, who were Sal in 1860, rebounded to. win their next nine games and went into the Orange Bowl where they clobbered Colorado, 25–7. Win Seven Straight Minnesota, although Nation al champion last year, was not highly rated at seasons start and it appeared dark after the Gophers dropped their opener to Missouri, 60. But Murray Warmath’s team reeled off seven straight, and after being upset by Wisconsin, went on to the Rose Bowl to wreck UCLA, 21–3. Kansas was beaten by Texas Christian and Colorado and tied by Wyoming. Then the Jayhawkers rallied to defeat Iowa State, Oklahoma, Okla homa State, Nebraska, Kansas State and California before closing out the regular season with a 10–7 loss to Missouri. Columbia amazed the East ern experts by winning a share of the Ivy League title after several losing seasons.
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.
On the newsreel
- ROSE BOWL: MINNESOTA 21 U.C.L.A. 3U.C.L.A scores a lone field goal to prevent a shut-out by Minnesota as the Gophers win all of the Roses in the Bowl
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Minnesota 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Minnesota–UCLA gameMinnesota leads 3–1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 2024 | Minnesota 21, UCLA 17 | |
| 1978 | UCLA 17, Minnesota 3 | |
| 1977 | Minnesota 27, UCLA 13 | |
| 1961 | Minnesota 21, UCLA 3 | Rose Bowl |
Around this game
Minnesota
- Next gamevs. MissouriSept. 29, 1962
- SeasonMinnesota in 1961
- ProgramMinnesota history and records
UCLA
- Next gamevs. Ohio StateOct. 6, 1962
- SeasonUCLA in 1961
- ProgramUCLA history and records