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The Great Rocco Colavito!

Yup. Those were the days when the Bears, Lions and Packers were so consistently awful that the Vikes got help in securing home playoff games. Nit so today!

Purdue in 2018 was awesome. When Cashman ran that fumble back for a TD just after halftime and a light snow began to fall, the Boilers played like they just wanted to get back on the plane.

Are you referring to that Bowl Game with Iowa State, in which the Gophers were in easy field goal range at the very end, only to have Gray lose a fumble at the Cyclone 20 yard-line?

1974- Minnesota 23 Iowa 17. Rick Upchurch streaks 86 yards for a score ( a school record until DT came along) on the first Gopher possession and finishes with 210 rushing yards. He will play just 2 years for Minnesota and then 9 years for the Broncos (1975-1983), catching passes for 4.300 yards...

1973- Minnesota 19 at Illinois 16. It's the day that Gil Fash becomes a legend as the Gophers pull off an all-time heist. They are outgained by the Illini by 440 yards to 83, with the Gophers making just 4 first downs. They trail 16-6 with 3 minutes left in the game. How in the world did they...

1968- Minnesota 27 Purdue 13- Gophers amass 297 rushing yards, 101 by Jim Carter and 98 by Barry Mayer. 3rd overall NFL pick Mike Phipps passes for just 109 yards and Heisman runner-up Leroy Keyes has a scant 49 rushing yards. Ray Stephens, Sandy' s younger but bigger brother, completes 6 of his...

1962- Minnesota 21 Navy 0- Gophers register the second of their 5 shutouts in a 9-game schedule. The Middies manage just 66 yards of offense and in the 4th quarter an obscure sophomore named Roger Staubach is inserted and becomes acquainted with Bell and Eller.

1972- Gophers 35 Northwestern 29. Minnesota completes NONE of its 4 pass attempts but rolls up 478 yards on the ground. John King has 188 yards on his way to being Minnesota's first 1,000-yard rusher. A freshman from North Dakota named Doug Beaudoin has 157 yards. Beaudoin will go on to appear...

1978- Gophers 32 Indiana 31. Gophers come back from 24-0 deficit and win it on Paul Rogind's 31 yard field goal with 2 seconds to go. Gophers roll up 577 yards of offense but lose 7 turnovers. They also run a school-record 100 plays with 34 first downs, compared to just 9 for Indiana. Marion...

1970- Minnesota 23 Michigan State 13. Gophers beat Spartans for the 7th time in a row. Mercifully, they did not have to play Duffy Daugherty's 1965 & 1966 juggernauts. Walter Bowser has two interceptions and an 82-yard touchdown fumble return before moving on to a 50-year career as a Twin Cities...

1967- Minnesota 21 Michigan State 0. On their way to a share of the Big 10 Championship, the Gophers get a school record 262 passing yards from Curtis Wilson. He has 3 touchdown passes on the day, 2 to Chip Litten. On both of those to Litten, a sophomore defensive back named Steve Garvey was...

We moved to San Diego when I was in middle school. I was in the 10th Grade in 1965 when the Gophers came west to open the season vs. USC on a Friday night. My dad and I went up for the game. The Gophers scored in the first quarter and Warmath, oddly, went for two and the play failed. The game...

1971- Gophers beat Wisconsin in Warmath's last game. Craig Curry throws a short scoring pass to Mel Anderson in the final minute, Gophers win 23-21. That 2000 Gopher team managed to do the unthinkable. They lost to Ohio University at home and then won in Columbus a month later.

2014- Gophers yield tying touchdown to Northwestern with 7:00 left but Jalen Myrick returns ensuing kickoff 100 yards and Minnesota hangs on to win, 24-17. That was Cal Stoll's first team. They had a big back from the south named John King. He became the first Gopher back to run for 1,000 yards...

2013- Gophers lead at Indiana, 42-39, but Hoosiers are at the Gopher 5-yard line with 30 seconds to go. Indiana throws a swing pass that falls incomplete. Gopher linebacker Aaron Hil is the only guy on the field who recognizes it as a lateral and scoops it up to save the day for Minnesota.

2011- Down 21-16 to Iowa, Kim Royston recovers a late onside kick and Marquies Gray scores on 4th down dash to pylon. Gophers win, 22-21.

2010-Coach Horton takes over for the fired Brewster and immediately instills order and belief, closing with 2 emotional wins, one at Illinois and the other at home vs. Iowa. Troy Stoudermire has a 95-yard kickoff return late in the Illinois game to spark the winning rally and then forces a...

Yes! The passer was future NFL great Ed Podolak. Also, Ken Last became the first Gopher with 1,000 career receiving yards on that day.

Someone registers a mild critique of your post and you respond with an F-Bomb. Lovely.