Beloit vs. Minnesota

Beloit and Minnesota first met in 1894 and have played 4 times; Minnesota leads the series 3–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Minnesota 3–⁠0, and Minnesota has won the last 2.

Beloit wins
0
Minnesota wins
3
Ties
1
First meeting
1894
Longest streak
2 Minnesota
Current streak
2 Minnesota
Last 10 meetings
Minnesota 3–⁠0
Most recent
1903

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠1–⁠1
1900s0–⁠2
Average margin
28.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Minnesota
3–⁠0–⁠1 Minnesota’s record at home
Shutouts
3

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Beloit and Minnesota, 1894 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Iowa County democrat's story of the 1894 game: BY THE UNIVERSITY OF Penn SYLNANIA TEAM-12 TO o THE PRINCETON MEN ARE. PLAINLY OUTCIASSED The Ball Never out of the Yellow and Black Territory-Second Touch Down Made Five Minutes Before Call of Time-MinncSota Defeats Beloit-Other Games.

    1894 · Iowa County democrat, Mineral Point, Wis., Nov 15, 1894

  • The River Falls journal's story of the 1899 game: Yictors at Football.

    1899 · River Falls journal, River Falls, Pierce County, Wis., Nov 16, 1899

  • The The Saint Paul globe's story of the 1903 game: in the ThnqB Bets erFoobaH Games

    1903 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Oct 25, 1903

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 24, 1903Minnesota 46, Beloit 0at Minnesota
Oct 11, 1902Minnesota 29, Beloit 0at Minnesota
Nov 11, 1899Minnesota 5, Beloit 5at Minnesota
Nov 10, 1894Minnesota 40, Beloit 0at Minnesota

Every game is listed as played on the field.