1954 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
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{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1954
| team = Minnesota Golden Gophers
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Big Ten Conference
| short_conf = Big Ten
| CoachRank = 20
| record = 7–2
| conf_record = 4–2
| head_coach = Murray Warmath
| hc_year = 1st
| mvp = Bob McNamara
| captain = Bob McNamara
| stadium = Memorial Stadium
}}
{{1954 Big Ten Conference football standings}}
The 1954 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1954 Big Ten Conference football season. In their first year under head coach Murray Warmath, the Golden Gophers compiled a 7–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 195 to 127.{{cite web|title=1954 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|access-date=November 1, 2017|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/minnesota/1954-schedule.html}} The team finished the season ranked #20 in the final Coaches poll.
Halfback Bob McNamara received the team's Most Valuable Player award, and was selected by the Football Writers Association of America (for Look magazine) as a first-team player on the 1954 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web|title=FWAA All America|publisher=Football Writers Association of America|url=http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf|access-date=2015-07-16|archive-date=2009-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326165534/http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf|url-status=dead}} He was also selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on its 1954 All-Big Ten Conference football team.{{cite news|title=A.P. Lists 1954 All Big Ten Choices|newspaper=The Daily Iowan|date=November 23, 1954|page=4|url=http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1954/di1954-11-23.pdf}} Fullback John Baumgartner was named Academic All-Big Ten.{{Citation | last = Keiser | first = Jeff | title = 2007 Media Guide | pages = 179–182 | year = 2007 | url = http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Total attendance for the season was 347,555, which averaged to 57,925. The season high for attendance was against Iowa.{{Citation | last = Keiser | first = Jeff | title = 2007 Media Guide | pages = 160 | year = 2007 | url = http://www.gophersports.com//pdf3/80498.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
| rankyear = 1954
| poll = AP
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 25
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| opponent = Nebraska
| gamename = rivalry
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Minneapolis, MN
| score = 19–7
| attend = 53,027
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 2
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| away = y
| opponent = Pittsburgh
| site_stadium = Pitt Stadium
| site_cityst = Pittsburgh, PA
| score = 46–7
| attend = 33,369
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 9
| w/l = w
| rank = 18
| opponent = Northwestern
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Minneapolis, MN
| score = 26–7
| attend = 53,663
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 16
| w/l = w
| rank = 11
| opponent = Illinois
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Minneapolis, MN
| score = 19–6
| attend = 63,339
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 23
| w/l = l
| away = y
| rank = 8
| opponent = Michigan
| site_stadium = Michigan Stadium
| site_cityst = Ann Arbor, MI
| gamename = Little Brown Jug
| score = 0–34
| attend = 83,060
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 30
| w/l = w
| homecoming = y
| opponent = Michigan State
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Minneapolis, MN
| score = 19–13
| attend = 63,360
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 6
| w/l = w
| rank = 14
| opponent = Oregon State
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Minneapolis, MN
| score = 44–6
| attend = 48,702
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 13
| w/l = w
| rank = 13
| opponent = Iowa
| opprank = 9
| site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Minneapolis, MN
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 22–20
| attend = 65,464
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 20
| w/l = l
| away = y
| rank = 10
| opponent = Wisconsin
| opprank = 17
| site_stadium = Camp Randall Stadium
| site_cityst = Madison, WI
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 0–27
| attend = 51,131
}}
}}
Roster
- Gino Cappelletti #15
References
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