Minnesota’s Memorial Stadium was the Gophers’ home until they made the↵colossal error of moving into the Metrodome in 1981, and it saw the best of↵Gopher football, including three national titles. The Metrodome error↵will be corrected this fall when the Gophers open up a new on-campus↵stadium unfortunately named after a bank.↵↵In preparation or celebration the University of Minnesota has just↵erected a tribute website for their old digs. It contains a lot of e-heroin for the↵college football history junkie, but perhaps nothing as historically↵awesome as this young child meeting the buck-toothed demon who would↵haunt her nightmares until her mid-20s:↵
Coraline, Meet Goldy, Your Hell-Gopher Father
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↵Photograph courtesy of the University of Minnesota Archives↵
↵↵There’s plenty of other nuggets for single-wing or Little Brown Jug↵enthusiasts plus preview magazines from the ‘30sthat sound like they were edited by T. Herman Zweibel. There’s more↵college football history there than you can shake a stick at. I mean...↵
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↵Photograph courtesy of the University of Minnesota Archives↵
↵↵... sometimes the good old days were good old days, right? Highly↵recommended.↵
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