1882 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

The 1882 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1882 college football season. The inaugural Minnesota football team did not have a coach. The first known mention of football at the University of Minnesota was on October 30, 1878 in the Ariel, the student newspaper at the time. It said that "Football has been the all-absorbing amusement for the past few weeks".[1]:11 However, in those days, the only games played were against other Minnesota students.

1882 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
ConferenceIndependent
1882 record1–1
Head coachNone
CaptainA. J. Baldwin
1882 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      8 0 0
Colorado College      1 0 0
Navy      1 0 0
Richmond      1 0 0
Harvard      7 1 0
Fordham      7 1 0
Princeton      7 2 0
Wesleyan      3 1 0
Rutgers      6 4 0
Dartmouth      1 1 0
Lake Forest      1 1 0
Minnesota      1 1 0
Northwestern      1 1 0
Stevens      1 1 1
Amherst      2 3 0
Penn      2 4 0
CCNY      1 2 0
MIT      1 4 0
Randolph–Macon      0 1 0
Lafayette      0 2 0
McGill      0 2 0
Massachusetts      0 3 0
Columbia      0 5 0
Michigan      0 0 0

Minnesota's first intercollegiate game which has its results recorded took place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on September 29, 1882.[2]:11 It was scheduled to be a three team track meet with the University of Minnesota, Carleton College and Hamline University competing. The team from Carleton College was unable to attend, so the other two teams went on with the meet without them. Following the meet, the athletes from Hamline wanted to go home, but were talked into playing a game of football first.[3]:14 A.J. Baldwin, the team captain, was the first Minnesota player to score in an intercollegiate game, leading his team to a 4–0 victory.[2]:11

According to the Ariel, "It is only fair to say that the Hamlines did not have their full strength and the University won by two goals in fifty-five minutes. This ended the day and the crowd dispersed well satisfied with the beginning which had been made in intercollegiate sports."[1]:12 The teams had a rematch a couple of weeks later which was won by Hamline.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 29vs. Hamline
W 4–0
October 16vs. HamlineSaint Paul, MNL 0–2
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References

  1. The General Alumni Association (1928). Martin Newell (ed.). The History of Minnesota Football. The General Alumni Association of the University of Minnesota.
  2. Men's Intercollegiate Athletic Department of the University of Minnesota (1981). Ralph Turtinen (ed.). 100 Years of Golden Gopher Football. John Roberts.
  3. Rainbolt, Richard (1972). Gold Glory. Wayzata, Minnesota: Ralph Turtinen Publishing.
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