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 Big Ten Conference 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 at five home games was 288,817, an average of 57,763 per game. The largest crowd was against Iowa.[3]

Schedule

September 27at Washington*

L 21–24 38,000 October 4No. 12 Pittsburgh*

L 7–13 56,450 October 11Northwestern

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

L 3–7 56,061 October 18Illinoisdagger

  • Memorial Stadium
  • MInneapolis, MN

L 8–20 58,174 October 25at Michigan

L 19–20 72,981 November 1at Indiana

L 0–6 25,000 November 8No. 2 Iowa

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN (Rivalry)

L 6–28 64,485 November 15Michigan State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

W 39–12 53,647 November 22at No. 5 Wisconsin

L 12–27 54,517

Template:CFB Schedule End

References

  1. ^ "1958 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  2. ^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), pp. 179–182[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 160[permanent dead link]