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WARNING: This post is a rendition of PAST Gophers glory. Stop reading now if that's not your deal. Billd.
Mrs. Billd wants a new kitchen in our 95-year old house. This required Mr. Billd to go to an antique mall in Des Moines to pick up an art-nouveau style table and chairs set...
Since I'm there might as well look around...in particular for anything Gophers-Hawks related. With this m.o. came across the Des Moines Register's Sunday, November 6, 1960 article recounting the previous day's game in Minneapolis. Got it for 5 bucks. Here's what it said...
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MINNESOTA WHIPS IOWA, 27-10
Gopher Defense and Hawkeye Mistakes Turn Tide in Meeting of Mighty
Bad Center Snap Proves Costly. By Bert McGrane. Register Staff Writer.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. -- Minnesota, hungry and ferocious in its long-delayed shot at the bigger stakes in football, fairly ate Iowa alive in the battle of the nation's giants here Saturday, scoring a 27-10 victory that left little doubt of Gopher superiority.
Iowa, sputtering first, then flashing brilliantly but briefly, got itself in huge trouble quickly, fought back to ultimately earn a third-quarter lead and then saw its advantage serve only to taunt Minnesota into a furious counter assault that sacked it up decisively.
Many Spoils
With the victory went almost limitless glory for the Gophers - the Big Ten lead, a certain climb to the nation's top, the end of the long dominance of the series by Iowa, possession of Floyd of Rosedale trophy for the first time in six years and the satisfaction that this job was done so convincingly that hope was waning on the Iowa side before the third quarter was gone.
This was a Minnesota team that was conceded to be mighty on defense. There was no suspicion that it could carry the attack more efficiently than the Hawkeyes, or present a more sustained offense.
It did both of those things. It did them by meeting its greatest opportunity in years with football that far surpassed the Minnesota brand of the losing years and exceeded even the finest showing of this unbeaten team.
Gophers? These gents played like hungry wolves.
The game packed an all-time record of 65,610 into the stadium and then treated the big majority of Minnesota followers and Iowa's disappointed thousands to a show of ruthless irresistibility that grew in momentum as the battle advanced."
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There's more of course and it's a great read. The Gophers were voted National Champions and went to the Rose Bowl against Washington and lost...but here's the point...
Now is just like 1960...stout defense gives the offense a chance. In 1960 Iowa was #1 coming in to that game and Minnesota was #1 coming out.
We've had droughts before and the pieces came together...in this example for Murray Warmath.
2015 is The Year of the Gophers!
Mrs. Billd wants a new kitchen in our 95-year old house. This required Mr. Billd to go to an antique mall in Des Moines to pick up an art-nouveau style table and chairs set...
Since I'm there might as well look around...in particular for anything Gophers-Hawks related. With this m.o. came across the Des Moines Register's Sunday, November 6, 1960 article recounting the previous day's game in Minneapolis. Got it for 5 bucks. Here's what it said...
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MINNESOTA WHIPS IOWA, 27-10
Gopher Defense and Hawkeye Mistakes Turn Tide in Meeting of Mighty
Bad Center Snap Proves Costly. By Bert McGrane. Register Staff Writer.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. -- Minnesota, hungry and ferocious in its long-delayed shot at the bigger stakes in football, fairly ate Iowa alive in the battle of the nation's giants here Saturday, scoring a 27-10 victory that left little doubt of Gopher superiority.
Iowa, sputtering first, then flashing brilliantly but briefly, got itself in huge trouble quickly, fought back to ultimately earn a third-quarter lead and then saw its advantage serve only to taunt Minnesota into a furious counter assault that sacked it up decisively.
Many Spoils
With the victory went almost limitless glory for the Gophers - the Big Ten lead, a certain climb to the nation's top, the end of the long dominance of the series by Iowa, possession of Floyd of Rosedale trophy for the first time in six years and the satisfaction that this job was done so convincingly that hope was waning on the Iowa side before the third quarter was gone.
This was a Minnesota team that was conceded to be mighty on defense. There was no suspicion that it could carry the attack more efficiently than the Hawkeyes, or present a more sustained offense.
It did both of those things. It did them by meeting its greatest opportunity in years with football that far surpassed the Minnesota brand of the losing years and exceeded even the finest showing of this unbeaten team.
Gophers? These gents played like hungry wolves.
The game packed an all-time record of 65,610 into the stadium and then treated the big majority of Minnesota followers and Iowa's disappointed thousands to a show of ruthless irresistibility that grew in momentum as the battle advanced."
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There's more of course and it's a great read. The Gophers were voted National Champions and went to the Rose Bowl against Washington and lost...but here's the point...
Now is just like 1960...stout defense gives the offense a chance. In 1960 Iowa was #1 coming in to that game and Minnesota was #1 coming out.
We've had droughts before and the pieces came together...in this example for Murray Warmath.
2015 is The Year of the Gophers!
