Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
What interested drama-loving fans was the possibility that Coach Crisler, who had tried and failed to break the long run of Michigan victories while he was head coach at Minnesota in 1930-31, might now, in his reversed position, break the four-year winning streak of the college he once coached...
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...
...fans, however, were 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...
...Michigan-owned jug, it was held as hostage by Minnesota in 1903, was later painted half maroon (for Minnesota), half blue (for Michigan). Of the 20 games played since 1903, Michigan has won 13, Minnesota six, one was tied...