Minnesota won the game by a 7 to 0 score on a five-yard touchdown run by halfback Herman Frickey in the second quarter. On October 25, 1941, Minnesota, ranked #1 in the AP Poll, played Michigan, ranked #3 in the country. Game summaries Michigan Week 5: Minnesota at Michigan

Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game.

The season high for attendance was against Northwestern.

Total attendance for the season was 239,227, which averaged to 47,845. īack Bob Sweiger was awarded the team most valuable player award. Wildung, Smith, halfback Bill Daley, end Bob Fitch and guard Len Levy were named All-Big Ten. Tackle Dick Wildung was named an All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, INS, Time Life, AP and UPI. Smith was also awarded the Heisman Trophy, the only Golden Gopher to win the award.

Halfback Bruce Smith was named an All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, INS, Time-Life, United Press (UP), Associated Press (AP) and Look Magazine. The team was selected national champion by eleven NCAA-designated major selectors in Associated Press, Billingsley, Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, Poling, Sagarin, Sagarin (ELO-Chess). The team's national championship run in the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor was chronicled in journalist Danny Spewak's book, 'From the Gridiron to the Battlefield: Minnesota's March to a College Football Title and into World War II,' published in 2021 by Rowman & Littlefield. In their tenth year under head coach Bernie Bierman, the Golden Gophers compiled an undefeated 8–0 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 186 to 38. The 1941 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1941 Big Ten Conference football season.

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