While I enjoy trying to understand the history of football rules, equipment, and the nature of play, gaining an understanding of fan behavior in years gone by is every bit as fun.
Even though the brochure said that it would be the last time the schools would meet for "some years," they picked right up again after the war, in 1947. Their most famous game was the 1961 Rose Bowl, when the Huskies upset the No. 1 Gophers 17-7.
I have a book--Minnesota Football: The Golden Years 1932-1941 by Dr. Jamie Quick (who got all his degrees there)--with an apocryphal tale about a Gophers' trip west. I'd thought it was this game, but it must have been during an earlier or later trip west. After dinner, the team visited the local whorehouse, while the hotel they should have been in burned to the ground ..
I did a quick newspaper search and the hotel they stayed at in Missoula on the way out in 1936 burned down. I'll check into it further and likely do a Tidbit about it.
Even though the brochure said that it would be the last time the schools would meet for "some years," they picked right up again after the war, in 1947. Their most famous game was the 1961 Rose Bowl, when the Huskies upset the No. 1 Gophers 17-7.
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I have a book--Minnesota Football: The Golden Years 1932-1941 by Dr. Jamie Quick (who got all his degrees there)--with an apocryphal tale about a Gophers' trip west. I'd thought it was this game, but it must have been during an earlier or later trip west. After dinner, the team visited the local whorehouse, while the hotel they should have been in burned to the ground ..
I did a quick newspaper search and the hotel they stayed at in Missoula on the way out in 1936 burned down. I'll check into it further and likely do a Tidbit about it.
Excellent story on Minnesota football. I love the constant references to the football Gophers and their furry namesakes.