1975 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

American college football season

1975 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	6–5 (3–5 Big Ten)
Head coach	Cal Stoll (4th season)
MVP	Tony Dungy
Captain	Keith Simons
Home stadium	Memorial Stadium
Seasons ← 1974 1976 →

1975 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 4 Ohio State $	8	–	0	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
No. 8 Michigan	7	–	1	–	0	8	–	2	–	2
Michigan State	4	–	4	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Illinois	4	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Purdue	4	–	4	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Wisconsin	3	–	4	–	1	4	–	6	–	1
Minnesota	3	–	5	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Iowa	3	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Northwestern	2	–	6	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Indiana	1	–	6	–	1	2	–	8	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1975 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1975 Big Ten Conference football season. In their fourth year under head coach Cal Stoll, the Golden Gophers compiled a 6–5 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 236 to 192.^[1]

Quarterback Tony Dungy received the team's Most Valuable Player award. Dungy and safety Doug Beaudoin were named All-Big Ten second team. Dungy was also named Academic All-Big Ten.^[2]

Total attendance for the season was 220,081, which averaged to 31,440. The season high for attendance was against Michigan State.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 13	at Indiana	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 14–20	35,594
September 20	Western Michigan*	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	W 38–0	23,326
September 27	Oregon*	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	W 10–7	34,300
October 4	Ohio*	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	W 21–0	27,486
October 11	at Illini	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	L 23–42	46,162
October 18	No. 17 Michigan State	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	L 15–38	39,202
October 25	at Iowa	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA (rivalry)	W 31–7	59,160
November 1	No. 7 Michigan	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN (Little Brown Jug)	L 21–28	33,191
November 8	Northwestern	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	W 33–9	24,998
November 15	at No. 1 Ohio State	Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH	L 6–38	87,817
November 22	Wisconsin	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN (rivalry)	W 24–3	37,578
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

1975 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
QB		Tony Dungy

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
DB	`22`	Doug Beaudoin	Sr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Head coach

Cal Stoll

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Game summaries

Iowa

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Minnesota	7	7	7	10	31
Iowa	7	0	0	0	7

Date: October 25
Location: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City, IA
Game attendance: 59,160

Scoring summary

1	IOWA	Holmes 13-yard run (Quartaro kick)	IOWA 7-0

1	MINN	Kullas 7-yard pass from Dungy (Kocourek kick)	Tied 7-7

2	MINN	Anhorn 13-yard pass from Dungy (Kocourek kick)	MINN 14-7

3	MINN	Perkins 1-yard run (Kocourek kick)	MINN 21-7

4	MINN	Perkins 1-yard run (Kocourek kick)	MINN 28-7

4	MINN	Kocourek 31-yard field goal	MINN 31-7

^[4]

References

^ "1975 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), pp. 179–182^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 160^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Eugene Register-Guard. 1975 Oct 26.

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