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Nebraska 84
Minnesota 13

Sep. 17, 1983
Metrodome • Minneapolis, MN
1st 2nd 3rd 4th  F 
Nebraska 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: Gallery 31 field goal, 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: Gallery 38 field goal, 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 
  Comp-Att-Int ...... 5-15-1    8-31-2 
Total offense ....... 70-790    80-277
Return yards ........... 196         7 
Sacks by .............. 4-37       0-0 
Punts ................. 3-44     13-38 
Fumbles-lost ........... 2-2       2-0 
Penalties-yards ....... 8-89      5-35 
Possession time ...... 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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Gophers helpless against Huskers’ onslaught

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.

1983 schedule
04/23 Reds 37, Whites 14
08/29 Penn St. W 44-6
09/10 Wyoming W 56-20
09/17 @ Minnesota W 84-13
09/24 UCLA W 42-10
10/01 Syracuse W 63-7
10/08 @ Oklahoma St. W 14-10
10/15 @ Missouri W 34-13
10/22 Colorado W 69-19
10/29 @ Kansas St. W 51-25
11/05 Iowa St. W 72-29
11/12 Kansas W 67-13
11/26 @ Oklahoma W 28-21
01/02 Miami L 30-31
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