1960 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
| 1960 Minnesota Golden Gophers football | |
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Consensus national champion Big Ten co-champion | |
Rose Bowl, L 7–17 vs. Washington | |
| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 1 |
| AP | No. 1 |
| 1960 record | 8–2 (6–1 Big Ten) |
| Head coach | Murray Warmath (7th season) |
| MVP | Tom Brown |
| Captain | Greg Larson |
| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 1 Minnesota + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 3 Iowa + | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 8 Ohio State | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 15 Michigan State | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 19 Purdue | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1960 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1960 Big Ten Conference football season. In their seventh year under head coach Murray Warmath, the Golden Gophers compiled an 8–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 228 to 88.[1] The Gophers won their seventh and most recent national title.[2] The team finished first in both the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) polls. The voting was held prior to the Gophers' loss to Washington in the 1961 Rose Bowl.
Guard Tom Brown received the team's Most Valuable Player award. Brown was also a consensus first-team All-American, won the Outland Trophy, finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting, and received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football, given to the Big Ten most valuable player. Brown, end Tom Hall and center Greg Larson were named All-Big Ten first team. Tackle Frank Brixius was named an Academic All-American and Academic All-Big Ten.[3]
Total attendance at five home games was 334,954, an average of 55,825 per game. The largest crowd was against Illinois.[4]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | Attendance | ||||
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| September 24 | at No. 12 Nebraska* | Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, NE (Rivalry) | W 26–14 | 38,000 | |||||
| October 1 | Indiana | No. 18 | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN | W 42–0 | 53,725 | ||||
| October 8 | Northwestern | No. 14 | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN | W 7–0 | 57,096 | ||||
| October 15 | Illinois |
No. 10 | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN | W 21–10 | 63,641 | ||||
| October 22 | at Michigan | No. 6 | Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI (Little Brown Jug) | W 10–0 | 69,352 | ||||
| October 29 | Kansas State* | No. 6 | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN | W 48–7 | 43,568 | ||||
| November 5 | No. 1 Iowa | No. 3 | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN (Rivalry) | W 27–10 | 65,610 | ||||
| November 12 | Purdue | No. 1 | Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN | L 14–23 | 61,348 | ||||
| November 19 | at Wisconsin | No. 4 | Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI (Rivalry) | W 26–7 | 55,576 | ||||
| January 2 | vs. No. 6 Washington* | No. 1 | Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl) | L 7–17 | 97,314 | ||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "1960 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 169
- ↑ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), pp. 179–182
- ↑ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 160