Goldy Gopher, the renowned mascot of the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers, has a long history that reflects the ...

He approved the chipmunk design anyway, wrote Grooms’ grandson, Steve Kuhl, in the Minnesota Alumni Association ... college mascots in the 1940s and ’50s. The gopher mascot was not actually named ...

Although this comparison makes Goldy’s mistaken identity seem obvious ... to create the institution’s gopher mascot, according to a 1995 Minnesota Daily article. On his way to Minneapolis, Grooms ...

Minnesota is directly in the middle of a chaotic coaching carousel in men's college basketball, which has a lot of people talking about how tough the Gophers job is. Really, the idea that ...