1958 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

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1958 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Iowa $ 5 1 0 8 1 1
No. 7 Wisconsin 5 1 1 7 1 1
No. 8 Ohio State 4 1 2 6 1 2
No. 13 Purdue 3 1 2 6 1 2
Indiana 3 2 1 5 3 1
Illinois 4 3 0 4 5 0
Northwestern 3 4 0 5 4 0
Michigan 1 5 1 2 6 1
Minnesota 1 6 0 1 8 0
Michigan State 0 5 1 3 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1958 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Murray Warmath, the Golden Gophers compiled a 1-8 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 157 to 115.[1]

Guard Everette Gerths received the team's Most Valuable Player award. Center Mike Svendsen was named All-Big Ten first team. Svendsen and offensive lineman Perry Gehring were named Academic All-Big Ten.[2]

Total attendance for the season was 288,817, which averaged to 57,763. The season high for attendance was against Iowa.[3]

Schedule

09/27/1958at Washington*

L 24-21 38,000 10/04/1958Pittsburgh*

L 13-7 56,450 10/11/1958Northwestern

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

L 7-3 56,061 10/18/1958Illinois

  • Memorial Stadium
  • MInneapolis, MN

L 20-8 58,174 10/25/1958at Michigan

L 20-19 72,981 11/01/1958at Indiana

L 6-0 25,000 11/08/1958Iowa

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

L 28-6 64,485 11/15/1958Michigan State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

W 39-12 53,647 11/22/1958at Wisconsin

L 27-12 54,517

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References

  1. ^ "Minnesota Yearly Results (1955-1959)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), pp. 179–182
  3. ^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 160