His Minnesota team in 1969, the year he broke in as a big league manager, was first.

As a major league rookie in 1982, he had a 4-10 record for a Minnesota team that lost 102 games.

Wells was hurled against center, but the whole Minnesota team got into the defense and stopped the play about where it had started.

The 43-point margin made it the worst defeat sustained by a Minnesota team to that point in the program's history.

The agreement allowed him 10% of any future Minnesota team.

But this Minnesota team has seven new players, and three weeks ago it was stumbling along to a 12-15 record.

This wasn't the same Minnesota team I faced all year.

Nor was it the same Minnesota team that had lost so often in the past.

Ohio State came up with a big win over a struggling Minnesota team.

The last Minnesota team to play at Nebraska was the victim of a 56-0 loss in 1990.