ESPN: The All-Time All-America team for college football's 150th anniversary (DT Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota)

[BleedGopher]

per ESPN:

DT Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota (1927-29)
Rushing yards: 557 | TDs: 6
An oft-told legend is that a college football coach, lost during a recruiting trip in Minnesota, asked a farmer for directions to the nearest town. Nagurski pointed the way -- with his plow. As a senior for the Gophers in 1929, Nagurski became the only player ever named All-American at two positions -- tackle on defense and fullback on offense. Legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice once famously wrote, "Eleven Bronko Nagurskis could beat 11 Red Granges or 11 Jim Thorpes. The 11 Nagurskis would be a mop-up. It would be something close to murder and massacre." That's the reason the Bronko Nagurski Trophy is given to the best defensive player every season.

The All-Time All-America team for college football's 150th anniversary

Meet the players who changed the way football was played at their positions over the sport's entire history.

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Go Gophers!!

 

[NorthernLakesGopher]

I still think we need a bronze plow by the tunnel where the team runs out. Start a new tradition of touching the plow.

 

[BTChamp]

I still think we need a bronze plow by the tunnel where the team runs out. Start a new tradition of touching the plow.

Something like that would be good. You're right, they need something to remember the past glory.

 

[KillmeNow]

I was disappointed that we didn't get a 2nd person on that team.

I know who my 2nd player would have been, what do the rest of you think? Don't just name your 2nd favorite Gopher player, but a player who you honestly think should have been consideration to make this team, 1st or 2nd teams.

 

[Jeshurun]

I was disappointed that we didn't get a 2nd person on that team.

I know who my 2nd player would have been, what do the rest of you think? Don't just name your 2nd favorite Gopher player, but a player who you honestly think should have been consideration to make this team, 1st or 2nd teams.

Bobby Bell or Carl Eller I would think would be close.

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

Legendary football writer Grantland Rice on Paul Giel, 1953: "The player of the year is Giel. Minnesota's North Star, an open-field magician, a clutch passer, a field general and a defensive stalwart, goes down in history not only with the best of the Western Conference, like Red Grange and Tommy Harmon, but with the best of any section of any era." Giel was AP and UPI Player of the Year, unanimous All-American, Big Ten MVP for the second year in a row, and lost the Heisman to Notre Dame's Johnny Lattner in the closest voting in the history of the trophy to that date. Notre Dame was undefeated and ranked #2 in the nation, Gophers were 4-4-1.

 

[GopherBulldog]

I still think we need a bronze plow by the tunnel where the team runs out. Start a new tradition of touching the plow.

Brilliant idea. Let’s get this funded.