"Nomellini and Tonnemaker make the tackle!" Wow! Thanks for this. A grade school kid, I listened to this broadcast in St. Paul. The Gophers were 4-0 and ranked third in the nation and Michigan was defending national champion, but they had lost a game. The week before the Gophers had wiped out Ohio State 27-0 in Columbus. This was the game after which Bud Grant said Bierman took the team out on the field around 10 a.m. and worked them so hard they were tired during the game - a mistake he said he never duplicated as a head coach. Worse, Bierman publicly blamed the players, saying they "didn't try hard enough." These older players - the war had delayed some of them from starting college - wouldn't take the guff and they rebelled and were flat the following week - homecoming against a mediocre Purdue team - and were upset 13-7, which cost them the Big Ten title and Rose Bowl (Michigan and Ohio State each had a loss and a tie (with each other). The Rose Bowl expectations for the '49ers and their failure to achieve them probably was most of the reason Bierman was fired after the next season, rather than the actual 1950 record of only one win.
