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...suddenly, charging up on the inside, a horse slipped between Big Bim and the rail-into the gap made by Roman's dropping back. It was Milky Way Farm's Gallahadion, with Carroll Bierman up, whom few had noticed inching his way along the rail. With powerful strides, Gallahadion pulled farther & farther away, reached the wire a length and a half ahead of Big Bim, who was desperately struggling to keep Arnold Hanger's Dit from second place...
Minnesota, last year's champion, has its usual big boys in the backfield, but its line is weak. Therefore brilliant Bernie Bierman, winner of four Big Ten titles and three mythical U. S. championships in the seven years he has been coach at Minnesota, must be content to sit this one out. Already, perennially mighty Minne sota has lost two, tied...
Last week the No. 1 rivalry of the Midwest became the No. 1 football interest of millions of U.S. fans. Minnesota, in its seventh year under Coach Bernie Bierman, boasted a team equal to the famed 1934 and 1935 outfits that earned the unofficial title of U.S. champion. Michigan, under its new coach, Fritz Crisler (recently lured from Princeton), displayed an unexpected renaissance after losing 22 of its 32 games in the past four years...
Among the 58,000 spectators who filled Minnesota's Memorial Stadium, Bernie Bierman's team was the favorite. Defending champion of the Big Ten, it had beaten Washington, Nebraska and Purdue this season. Fritz Crisler's green but speedy team had beaten Michigan State 14-to-0 and Chicago...
...prepared for the powerhouse offensive that Michigan uncorked. For 55 minutes it blasted Minnesota's theretofore impregnable defense, scoring a touchdown-with unexpected attacks of straightforward, old-fashioned delayed bucks-in the first few minutes of the last quarter. Then, with five minutes left to play, canny Coach Bierman frantically called from the sidelines his only able passer, Harold Van Every, who had been out with a kidney ailment since the first game of the year. Before the astonished spectators knew what it was all about, Minnesota had crossed the goal line and had kicked the extra point-something...