Today's Tidbit... When The Gophers Played With Fire

The Tidbit from a week ago covered the itinerary and game during the Minnesota Gophers' trip to play Washington in Seattle in 1941. Last week’s story mentioned that Minnesota made the same trip in 1936 but said nothing about those events. However, an alert reader, Phil Allen, recalled that the Minnesota team experienced a fire at their hotel during one of the trips to Seattle, so I looked into the claim and found it was true.

The 43 members of the 1936 Minnesota traveling party left the Twin Citi...