Official recap
Nebraska scored almost at will against outmanned Minnesota in recording an 84-13 win over the Gophers. NU rolled up its biggest score ever against an NCAA Division I-A team and its most overall since a 100-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan in 1917. It was the worst defeat suffered by Minnesota in 100 years of college football (ironically, Nebraska's worst-ever defeat was a 61-7 loss at the hands of the Gophers in Lincoln in 1945). The entire 60-man travel squad had played before the end of the third quarter. Irving Fryar broke Johnny Rodgers' Nebraska wingback record for reception yards with 138 on just two catches — 70- and 68-yard touchdowns, the longest receptions of his career, and the longest passes of Turner Gill's career.
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LYELL'S CALL | SERIES HISTORY
SEASON STATS | NU ROSTER
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Nebraska 84
Minnesota 13
Sept. 17, 1983
Minneapolis, MNNebraska 21 21 21 21 — 84
Minnesota 0 10 3 0 — 13
First Quarter
NEB — Mark Schellen 27 run (kick failed), 12:20.
NEB — Irving Fryar 68 pass from Turner Gill
(Fryar pass from Gill), 7:02.
NEB — Fryar 70 pass from Gill (Dave Schneider kick), 2:50.
Second Quarter
MIN — David Puk 1 run (James Gallery kick), 14:21.
NEB — Fryar 41 run (Schneider kick), 12:30.
NEB — Jeff Smith 12 run (Schneider kick), 8:34.
MIN — FG Gallery 31, 3:28.
NEB — Mike Rozier 7 run (Schneider kick), 1:30.
Third Quarter
NEB — Rozier 1 run (Scott Livingston kick), 9:41.
NEB — Gill 12 run (Livingston kick), 7:17.
MIN — FG Gallery 38, 3:56.
NEB — Rozier 71 run (Livingston kick), 3:01.
Fourth Quarter
NEB — Smith 51 pass from Craig Sundberg (Livingston kick), 14:15.
NEB — Sundberg 44 run (Livingston kick), 10:19.
NEB — Sundberg 1 run (Livingston kick), 3:06.
Attendance: 62,687.
NEB MIN
First downs 25 21
Rushes-yards 55-595 49-162
Passing yards 195 115
Return yards 196 7
Passes 5-15-1 8-31-2
Sacks by 4-37 0-0
Punts 3-44 13-38
Fumbles-lost 2-2 2-0
Penalties-yards 8-89 5-35
Time of possession 22:35 37:25
RUSHING
NEB: Rozier 15-196, Gill 4-100, Fryar 3-92, Smith 10-56,
Schellen 7-43, Sundberg 5-42, Paul Miles 4-30.
MIN: Baylor 6-56, Puk 15-50, Donovan Small 7-37.
PASSING
NEB: Gill 3-12-0-136, Sundberg 2-2-0-59, Mason 0-1-1-0.
MIN: Greg Murphy 8-23-0-115, Andy Hare 0-8-2-0.
RECEIVING
NEB: Fryar 2-138, Smith 1-51, Ricky Simmons 1-8.
MIN: Dwayne McMullen 3-49, Clark Johnson 1-29.
MISSED FIELD GOALS
None.
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