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1936 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1936
team	Minnesota Golden Gophers
sport	football
conference	Big Ten Conference
short_conf	Big Ten
APRank	1
record	7–1
conf_record	4–1
head_coach	Bernie Bierman
hc_year	5th
off_scheme	Single-wing
mvp	Ed Widseth
captain	{{plainlist
stadium	Memorial Stadium
champion	AP Poll national champion

Julius Alfonse
Ed Widseth The 1936 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1936 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Bernie Bierman, the Golden Gophers compiled a 7–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 203 to 32. The team was named national champion by nine NCAA-designated major selectors, then and in the decades since: Associated Press, Billingsley Report, Dickinson System, Dunkel System, Helms Athletic Foundation, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, Poling System, and Williamson. This marked the third consecutive year the team was selected contemporaneously as national champion by at least three math systems. However, the Big Ten Conference did not allow its members to play postseason bowl games at the time, a conference bylaw that would not be changed until 1946.

Tackle Ed Widseth was named an All-American by Collier's/Grantland Rice, Associated Press, INS, NEA, New York Sun, Look Magazine, New York Morning Telegram, Hearst, United Press International and Paramount News. Widseth and halfback Andy Uram were named All-Big Ten first team.

Ed Widseth was awarded the Team MVP award.

Total attendance for the season was 247,653, which averaged to 49,531. The season high for attendance was against Iowa.

Schedule

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Roster

Jules Alfonse
Raymond J. Antil
Frank J. Barle
Raymond Bates
Phil Belfiori
Horace D. Bell
Bruce H. Berryman
Larry Buhler
Bob Carlson
Dan Elmer
George Faust
Rudolph Gmitro
V. Stanley Hanson
J. Robert Hoel
Sam E. Hunt, Jr.
Robert Wesley Johnson
Edward Kafka
Warren Kilbourne
Ray Wallace King
Florian Klick
Dominic Krezowski
John Kulbitski
Marvin A. LeVoir
William Matheny
Lou Midler
Wilbur Moore
Dwight T. Reed
Samuel A. Riley
Harvey Ring
Allen W. Rork
Whitman H. Rork
Charles Schultz
Clark L. Snyder
Vic Spadaccini
Bud Svendsen
Tuffy Thompson
Frank Twedell
Andy Uram
Frank J. Warner
Bob Weld
Ed Widseth
Bud Wilkinson
Harold L. Wrightson

References

"1936 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
(August 2018). "2018 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records". National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Keiser, Jeff. (March 2018). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (March 2018). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (March 2018). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (March 2018). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (July 2018). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf3/80498.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{Dead link).
Tod Rockwell. (October 18, 1936). "Minnesota Makes Michigan 20th Straight Victim, 26 to 0: U. of M. Offense Futile as Gopher Backs Romp". Detroit Free Press.
George A. Barton. (October 18, 1936). "Gophers Trounce Michigan, 26-0: Wolverines Run Ragged; Moore Races 60 Yards". Minneapolis Tribune.
(November 15, 1936). "Gopher power routs Texas eleven, 47–19". Chicago Tribune.

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