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per Bland:
If ever there was a trap game, this was it.
Minnesota wanted to end a lengthy drought against Nebraska so badly it posted a sign on its locker-room door before the 1:30 p.m. kickoff asking players how they would fare against “the Big 8’s best.” Their run defense, they insisted all week from Minneapolis, was finally good enough to hang with Big Red’s bruising ground attack.
Talk around Lincoln, meanwhile, centered on the upcoming Big Eight slate in the days following the shutout of Army. How about Colorado putting an end to a 31-game unbeaten streak by Joe Paterno and Penn State? Did you see league co-favorite Missouri drop a 37-14 stunner to Air Force? How good is Iowa State after an easy early schedule?
The anticipation wasn’t just from fans. In a World-Herald poll that 53 Nebraska players participated in, the consensus was that USC and Missouri would be their toughest opponents of the year, and 13 thought the Tigers would be the most difficult. The group voted Mizzou as NU’s foremost rival, ahead of Oklahoma.
“We’ll beat these guys 34-7,” NU center Doug Dumler predicted to Tagge the morning of the game. Unlike the final score, he turned out to be awfully close.
Nebraska 35, Minnesota 10
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Go Gophers!!
If ever there was a trap game, this was it.
Minnesota wanted to end a lengthy drought against Nebraska so badly it posted a sign on its locker-room door before the 1:30 p.m. kickoff asking players how they would fare against “the Big 8’s best.” Their run defense, they insisted all week from Minneapolis, was finally good enough to hang with Big Red’s bruising ground attack.
Talk around Lincoln, meanwhile, centered on the upcoming Big Eight slate in the days following the shutout of Army. How about Colorado putting an end to a 31-game unbeaten streak by Joe Paterno and Penn State? Did you see league co-favorite Missouri drop a 37-14 stunner to Air Force? How good is Iowa State after an easy early schedule?
The anticipation wasn’t just from fans. In a World-Herald poll that 53 Nebraska players participated in, the consensus was that USC and Missouri would be their toughest opponents of the year, and 13 thought the Tigers would be the most difficult. The group voted Mizzou as NU’s foremost rival, ahead of Oklahoma.
“We’ll beat these guys 34-7,” NU center Doug Dumler predicted to Tagge the morning of the game. Unlike the final score, he turned out to be awfully close.
Nebraska 35, Minnesota 10
Omaha's best led Huskers past Minnesota, but bigger tests remained in 1970 season
In its last nonconference game of 1970, Nebraska dominated Minnesota behind standout performances from some of Omaha's best. But after beating the Gophers, tougher tests in the Big Eight remained.
Go Gophers!!