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1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

The 1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1898 Western Conference football season. In their first and only season under head coach Jack Minds, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4–5 record (1–2 against Western Conference opponents), finished in fifth place in the conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 92 to 73.[1]

1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
ConferenceWestern Conference
Record4–5 (1–2 Western)
Head coach
CaptainGeorge E. Cole
Home stadiumAthletic Park
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Western Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan $ 3 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0
Chicago 3 – 1 – 0 14 – 2 – 1
Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Illinois 1 – 1 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Minnesota 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Purdue 0 – 1 – 0 3 – 3 – 0
Northwestern 0 – 4 – 0 9 – 4 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1898 season for Minnesota was one of adversity, including bad weather and a mid-season injury to the team's captain.[2]: 27  Coach Jack Minds was a fullback and kicker at the University of Pennsylvania.[3]: 312 

On Thanksgiving Day 1898, Minnesota and Illinois played a football game for the first time in the two programs' history. A big storm had come through the previous day, but John Pillsbury (the student manager) put together a crew and worked overnight using horse-drawn plows to clear the field. The game itself was delayed several times when the ball was lost in snow drifts on the side of the field[4]: 21  and the temperature fell to about 10 below zero when the game was called at noon.[2]: 27  Illinois won the game 11–10.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Carleton*Minneapolis, MNW 32–0[5]
October 53:35 p.m.Alumni*Minneapolis, MNL 0–5[6]
October 8Rush Medical*
W 12–0[7]
October 15Grinnell*Minneapolis, MNL 6–16[8]
October 22Iowa State*Minneapolis, MNL 0–6[9]
October 29at Wisconsin
L 0–291,200[10][11]
November 5North Dakota*Minneapolis, MNW 15–0[12]
November 12NorthwesternMinneapolis, MNW 17–64,000[13]
November 24IllinoisMinneapolis, MNL 10–11[14]
  • *Non-conference game

Personnel

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Players

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  • Aune - guard
  • Bernhagen - halfback
  • Cameron - halfback
  • Kienholtz - quarterback
  • Nicoulin - tackle
  • Otte - tackle
  • Page - center
  • Parry - guard
  • Harry "Buz" Scandrett - captain, end, and elected captain for 1899[15]
  • Shepley - fullback
  • von Schlegell - end

Staff

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References

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  1. ^ "1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  2. ^ a b The General Alumni Association (1928). Martin Newell (ed.). The History of Minnesota Football. The General Alumni Association of the University of Minnesota.
  3. ^ University of Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletics (2004). Jeff Keiser; Shane Sanderfeld (eds.). Minnesota Football 2004 Media Guide. University of Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletics Communications.
  4. ^ Rainbolt, Richard (1972). Gold Glory. Wayzata, Minnesota: Ralph Turtinen Publishing.
  5. ^ "Gophers Ate 'Em: Carleton Eleven Shut Out by a Score of 32-0". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis. October 2, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Husky Grads Win: Alumni Eleven Does Up the 'Varsity Kickers; 'Twas a Very Warm Game". The Minneapolis Times. October 6, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Maroon and Gold: It Waved Triumphantly After Yesterday's Football Game; Minnesota Defeats Rush Medical in a One-Sided Game by a Score of 12-0". The Minneapolis Tribune. October 9, 1898. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Fell Down Hard: Gophers Went Down to Inglorious Defeat Yesterday; Grinnell Turned the Trick". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis. October 16, 1898. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Dined on Gopher: Ames Makes Mincemeat of the Crippled Gophers; Cole's Skull Is Fractured". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis. October 23, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Rallied Too Late". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 30, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved January 9, 2023 – via Newspapers.com  .
  11. ^ "Gophers Are Licked: No Show for the Football Players from Minnesota; First Half Ends 23 to 0". Wisconsin State Journal. October 29, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Jack Minds' Pets Get a Game at Last: Minnesota Defeats North Dakota by a Score of 15-0". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis. November 6, 1898. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Varsity Boys Win a Splendid Victory". The Minneapolis Tribune. November 13, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Kicked in the Cold on a Margin of one Point Illinois from Minnesota". The Saint Paul Globe. November 25, 1898. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ ""Buz" Scandrett Will Be Their Leader". The Minneapolis Times. December 5, 1898. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ a b The Gopher 1900, p. 273.
  17. ^ The Gopher 1900, p. 272.
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