| 1930Minnesota Golden Gophers football | |
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| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| Record | 3–4–1 (1–3 Big Ten) |
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| MVP | Biggie Munn |
| Captain | Win Brockmeyer |
| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| No. 5Michigan + | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 4Northwestern + | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 5 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1930 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented theUniversity of Minnesota in the1930 college football season. In their first year under head coachFritz Crisler, the Golden Gophers compiled a 3–4–1 record, shut out four opponents (including a scoreless tie with Stanford), and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 126 to 81. Out of 126 points scored by the Golden Gophers, most were scored in two games against schools from South Dakota who the Golden Gophers defeated by a combined score of 107 to 0.[1]
GuardBiggie Munn was selected as the team's Most Valuable Player.[2] Munn was also selected by theUnited Press as a first-team player on the1930 All-Big Ten Conference football team.[3]
Total attendance for the season was 167,728, which averaged to 27,955.[4] The season high for attendance was againstNorthwestern.[4]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 27 | South Dakota State* | W 48–0 | 20,000 | [5] | |
| October 4 | Vanderbilt* |
| L 7–33 | 20,000 | [6] |
| October 11 | Stanford* |
| T 0–0 | 45,000 | [7] |
| October 18 | Indiana |
| W 6–0 | 20,000 | [8] |
| November 1 | Northwestern |
| L 6–27 | 54,000 | [9] |
| November 8 | South Dakota* |
| W 59–0 | 20,000 | [10] |
| November 15 | atMichigan | L 0–7 | 54,944 | [11] | |
| November 22 | atWisconsin | L 0–14 | 32,000 | [12] | |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
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| Gophers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wolverines | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
In the seventh week of the season, Minnesota played Michigan in the annual competition for theLittle Brown Jug. The game marked the first appearance byFritz Crisler as a head coach at Michigan Stadium. Crisler was in his first year as head coach at Minnesota; he took over as Michigan's head coach eight years later. Michigan won the game 7 to 0. The game's only score came in the first quarter on a 45-yard punt return by Michigan's left halfback, Jack Wheeler. The return was off of a punt by Minnesota's All-AmericanBiggie Munn. A newspaper account of the game described Wheeler's run as follows:
"Wheeler's run will go down as one of Michigan's, classics. He got the ball after a low, twisting kick by Munn had traveled to the Minnesota 45-yard line. Wheeler gathered it in and charged. He hit two Minnesota tacklers and knifed his way between them. He staggered a yard or two from the impact and sidestepped another Gopher tackler. Morrison came across like a charging bull to take another from Wheeler's path. He waved away, and slid yards across the goal line on his dive for a touchdown."[13]
Despite the lack of scoring, theAssociated Press reported that the game was "a desperately-fought breath-taking football battle."[13]