South Dakota at Minnesota
Saturday, September 28, 1912 Share
South Dakota beat Minnesota 10–0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 4–1.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 38°FAttendance 3,500
In the newspapers

The Brookings register, Brookings, Brookings County, S.D., October 3, 1912, page 1
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Mrs. Jane Prowse and daughter, Mrs. Clifford Johnson returned from Huron Monday morning. The present hospital association would like to have all bills against the association presented to DR.. Borst before Nov. LIST. Mrs. I’d. Farrenkop arrived from Minneapolis Thursday evening for a visit of a couple of weeks with Mrs. A. b. Allison and other Brookings friends. Mrs. Arthur Dillman of Belle Fourche, arrived Monday morning and spent the day with her grandfather, w. S. Stowe. going ia Watertewn IN the evening to visit her mother. Rev. J. J. Gardner departed Mon, day morning for Storm Lake, Iowa, to attend the NJ. +. conference of which he was a member so long and he is still secretary of its board of trustees. He was accompanied by Mrs. Gardner and they will visit old friends for a couple of weeks. l.. +. Ness, of Bruce, is visiting friends in the city. Mr.. Ness is one of the old settlers and until about two years ago was hale and hearty. He suffered n stroke of paralysis but recovered sufficiently to make a trip to his old home in Norway. He is now going about with the aid OF a cane. Coach Ewing of the college football team, went to Minneapolis Friday night to witness the game between Minnesota and South Dakota. The result Of the game was a surprise, South Dakota winning by a score Of 10 to 0. Mr.. Ewing says that Vermillion has an unusually strong team and the local team will have to hustle from now on with that game in view. AS a result of certain co%rrespondence with the United States Civil Service Commission, Professor Starr, ing has received word from Washing ton that it is possible to have the regular Civil Service examinations held in ~BrookingS each year beginning with this fall. If enough young people in ~Brookings and vicinity would take the examinations it is practically GER tain that such arrangements will be definitely made. Any one in Brook, ings who is interested in this proposition should notify Mr.. Starring at once. At the present time the near est cities holding general Civil Ser vice examinations for government positions, as clerks, stenographers, boOkkeeperS, etc, are WATERFOWL, Huron and Sioux Falls.

The Mobridge news, Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D., October 4, 1912, page 1
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MINNESOTA LOST TO SOUTH DAKOTA State University Football Team De. feats Minnesota by Score OF 10 TO O. There was oodles JOY throughout the state Of South Dakota Saturday evening when the wires from Minneapolis clicked off the tidings that the Coyotes from the University of South Dakota had trimmed the Gopher team of the University Of Minnesota, 10 to 0, in q very interesting game. While the football followers of Aberdeen were more than dee lighted to see the Vermillion bunch win, they were doubly tickied, because in defeating the Gophers, the University of South Dakoto became permanently placed on the football map. Sheeks, full back, and Inlay, an Aberdeen boy playing left half, were the individual stars for the Dakota eleven, it being Sheeks who brought in the first score by kicking the pig-skin from the thirty five-yard line on the fourth down. the ball going over the pole, In the lat quarter he kick ed goal. after Inlay had killed forward pass by Minnesota and carried it across the fifty.yard line. Sheeks was responsible for four OF the points and INLAY for six. The detail Of plays, as printed in Sundays Minneapolis papers, shows that every one OF the Yer million players was on the job. “ Pat Coffey, captain of the Coyotes, encouraged his men throughout, and he did considerable OF the fiying work The Gophers were too light, and were Out-played, though they worked hard to keep the score down. The score: First quarter, Minnesota, O; South Dakota, 0. Second quarter. Minnesota, 0; South Dakota, 3. Third quarter, Minnesota, 0; South Dakota, 3. Fourth quarter, Minnesota, o; South Dakota. 10. - Aberdeen News.

The Fargo forum and daily republican, Fargo, N.D., September 30, 1912, page 1
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MINNESOTA LOST TO SOUTH DAKOTA Minneapolis, Sept. a0.-The University of South Dskota’s football team Saturday afternoon obtained revenge for the years of scoreless defeat by the University of Minnesota, when it defeated the latter team by a score Of 10 to 0 in the first local game of the season. With but one veteran. Tobin, full back. in the lineup for Minnesota, none of the brilliant offensive and defensive play of former years was shown by Coach H. L.. Williams proteges. South Dakota, with it’s two weeks Of praCtice to Minnesota’s one. showed better form, both in offense and defense, Sheeks, South Dakota’s right half, made the first score of the game in the second quarter, when he kicked from the thirty-fve yard line on the fourth down, the ball going squarely between the posts. At the beginning of the last half Minnesota came back, seemingly with d determination to score. Tollefson, left ~haIfback, and .Tobtn making a series of brilliant gains through END runs and line smashes, but could not keep 1t VI. In the middle of the last quarter Imley, South Dakota’s left half, inter copied a forward pass on the fifty yard line and carried it across without a Minnesota, man getting in tacklinS Ferguson kicked goal. T~wo-thirdS of the game The ball was on Minnesota territory with the latter team fighting to hold the visitors.
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 96% to win. South Dakota pulled the upset.
The series
Every South Dakota–Minnesota gameMinnesota leads 9–2 in 11 meetings, counting the six since this game.
Around this game
South Dakota
- Next gameat MichiganNov. 2, 1912
- SeasonSouth Dakota in 1912
- ProgramSouth Dakota history and records
Minnesota
- Next gamevs. Iowa StateOct. 5, 1912
- SeasonMinnesota in 1912
- ProgramMinnesota history and records

