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1989 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
1989 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	6–5 (4–4 Big Ten)
Head coach	John Gutekunst (4th season);
Captain	Mac Stephens, Darrell Thompson
Home stadium	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
	Seasons ← 1988 1990 →

1989 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

American college football season

The 1989 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth year under head coach John Gutekunst, the Golden Gophers compiled a 6–5 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 283 to 263.^[1]

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Kicker Brent Berglund, offensive lineman Dan Liimata, tailback Darrell Thompson and defensive tackle Mike Sunvold were named All-Big Ten second team.^[2] Punter Brent Herbel was named Academic All-American.^[3] Running back Pat Cummings, punter Brent Herbel, offensive lineman Dan Liimatta, offensive lineman Jon Melander, quarterback Scott Schaffner and linebacker Joel Staats were named Academic All-Big Ten.^[3]

Darrell Thompson was awarded the Bronko Nagurski Award and Bruce Smith Award.^[4] Linebacker Eddie Miles was awarded the Carl Eller Award.^[4] Brent Berglund was awarded the Bobby Bell Award.^[4] Dan Liimatta was awarded the Butch Nash Award.^[4] Jon Melander was awarded the Paul Giel Award.^[4]

Total attendance for the season was 237,552, which averaged out to 39,592 per game. The season high for attendance was against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.^[5]

Season summary

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 16	1:00 pm	at Iowa State*	Cyclone Stadium Ames, Iowa		W 30–20	45,410
September 23	5:00 pm	No. 3 Nebraska*	Metrodome Minneapolis		L 0–48	58,368
September 30	1:30 pm	Indiana State*	Metrodome Minneapolis		W 34–14	34,280
October 7	1:30 pm	Purdue	Metrodome Minneapolis		W 35–15	36,621
October 14	1:00 pm	at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois		W 20–18	26,849
October 21	1:00 pm	at Indiana	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, Indiana		L 18–28	51,069
October 28	2:30 pm	Ohio State	Metrodome Minneapolis	ABC	L 37–41	33,945
November 4	1:30 pm	Wisconsin	Metrodome Minneapolis (Paul Bunyan's Axe)		W 24–22	39,325
November 11	12:00 pm	at Michigan State	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, Michigan		L 7–21	73,259
November 18	11:30 am	No. 3 Michigan	Metrodome Minneapolis (Little Brown Jug)	ESPN	L 15–49	35,013
November 25	1:05 pm	at Iowa	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, Iowa (Floyd of Rosedale)		W 43–7	67,700
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Purdue	Passing	Jeff Lesniewicz	13/19, 191 Yds, TD, INT
	Rushing
	Receiving
Minnesota	Passing	Scott Schaffner	9/19, 144 Yds, 2 TD
	Rushing	Marcus Evans	102 Yds, TD
	Receiving

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Wisconsin	Passing
	Rushing	Robert Williams	21 Rush, 129 Yds, TD
	Receiving
Minnesota	Passing
	Rushing	Darrell Thompson	32 Rush, 143 Yds, TD
	Receiving

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Michigan	Passing	Michael Taylor	12/16, 231 Yds, 4 TD
	Rushing	Leroy Hoard	11 Rush, 90 Yds, TD
	Receiving	Greg McMurtry	7 Rec, 165 Yds, 3 TD
Minnesota	Passing	Marquel Fleetwood	11/23, 100 Yds, 2 INT
	Rushing	Darrell Thompson	18 Rush, 50 Yds, TD
	Receiving	Pat Tinglehoff	7 Rec, 77 Yds

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Minnesota	Passing
	Rushing	Darrell Thompson	122 Yds
	Receiving
Iowa	Passing
	Rushing	Nick Bell	19 Rush, 133 Yds
	Receiving

1989_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team

1989 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

Schedule

Personnel

Season summary

At Iowa State

Nebraska

Indiana State

Purdue

At Northwestern

At Indiana

Ohio State

Wisconsin

At Michigan State

Michigan

At Iowa

External links

References

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v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 7 Michigan $	8	–	0	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
No. 10 Illinois	7	–	1	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
No. 16 Michigan State	6	–	2	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
No. 24 Ohio State	6	–	2	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Minnesota	4	–	4	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Indiana	3	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Iowa	3	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Purdue	2	–	6	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Wisconsin	1	–	7	–	0	2	–	9	–	0
Northwestern	0	–	8	–	0	0	–	11	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Period	1	2	3	4	Total
Purdue	0	3	0	12	15
Minnesota	7	7	14	7	35

Period	1	2	3	4	Total
Ohio St	0	8	10	23	41
Minnesota	17	14	0	6	37

Period	1	2	Total
Wisconsin	7	15	22
Minnesota	10	14	24

Period	1	2	3	4	Total
Michigan	0	28	7	14	49
Minnesota	7	0	8	0	15