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1965 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

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1965 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Michigan State $ 7 0 0 10 1 0
Ohio State 6 1 0 7 2 0
Purdue 5 2 0 7 2 1
Minnesota 5 2 0 5 4 1
Illinois 4 3 0 6 4 0
Northwestern 3 4 0 4 6 0
Michigan 2 5 0 4 6 0
Wisconsin 2 5 0 2 7 1
Indiana 1 6 0 2 8 0
Iowa 0 7 0 1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1965 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1965 college football season. In their 12th year under head coach Murray Warmath, the Golden Gophers compiled an 5-4-1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 188 to 160.[1]

Quarterback John Hankinson received the team's Most Valuable Player award. End Aaron Brown was named an All-American by the Associated Press, Look magazine, United Press International, Collier's/Grantland Rice and Football Writers Association of America. Brown was also named All-Big Ten first team.[2]

Total attendance for the season was 302,747, which averaged to 50,458. The season high for attendance was against Michigan.[3]

Schedule

09/17/1965at Southern Cal*

T 20-20 58,497 09/25/1965Washington*

L 14-13 46,917 10/02/1965Missouri*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

L 17-6 49,889 10/09/1965Indiana

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

W 42-18 46,010 10/16/1965at Iowa

W 14-3 59,200 10/23/1965Michigan

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

W 14-13 58,519 10/30/1965at Ohio State

L 11-10 84,359 11/06/1965Northwestern

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

W 27-22 50,565 11/13/1965at Purdue

L 35-0 45,587 11/20/1965Wisconsin

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Minneapolis, MN

W 42-7 50,847

Template:CFB Schedule End


Game notes

Michigan

1 234Total
Michigan 7 006 13
Minnesota 0 077 14

References

  1. ^ "Minnesota Yearly Results (1965-1969)". 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