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While he worked at the company, Grooms designed the first gopher mascot. At that time, many colleges were opting to use cartoon-like mascots and Grooms designed many of them. Steve Grooms said his ...
The mischaracterization of the gopher began with a political cartoon by R.O. Sweeny, according to a 1997 Star Tribune article. The 1857 cartoon depicted humanized gophers – which were actually ...
Three Gophers football players fulfilled lifelong dreams of being NFL draft picks last week. They will be paid handsomely for their accomplishments. The Houston Texans drafted left tackle ...
Tyler Williams’ stay with the Gophers football team didn’t last a full year. Williams arrived in Minnesota in June 2024, caught one pass last fall, didn’t crack the top end of the U rotation ...
Former Gopher standout Justin Walley was selected by the Colts in the third round with the 80th overall pick. Ersery is the third Gopher offensive lineman to be drafted in the last four years ...
was a two-sport athlete (hockey and football) at the University of Minnesota before returning to his alma mater as head coach of Gopher Hockey from 1952-1955 and 1956-66 (taking one year off to lead ...
There is plenty of returning talent for next year’s Golden Gophers, but there’s been plenty of turnover this offseason, too. On offense, they’re making changes yet again at the most ...
Gophers football might challenge its program record for amount of selections in the NFL draft this week. Minnesota set the modern-day, seven-round record at five picks in 2020 when Antoine ...
Tyler Cochran's Gophers career is officially over, and he's entering the transfer portal after playing zero games in a Minnesota uniform. The 2023-24 Mid American Conference (MAC) Defensive Player ...
Thursday night on the West Coast, the Gophers women’s basketball team did many of the things it wanted to do in a battle with fourth-ranked USC. The Gophers — particularly Amaya Battle ...
It was a tale of two halves for the Minnesota Gophers and Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday night. Despite a costly turnover, the Gophers played like the better football team in the first half ...