University of Minnesota Athletics
Gopher Athletics Timeline (1960-1969)
1960
Minnesota, led by quarterback Sandy Stephens, wins its seventh national football title.
1960
Tom Brown wins football’s Outland Trophy for best interior lineman.
1960
The Golden Gophers win their second College World Series in four years.
1962
On New Year’s Day, in its second consecutive Rose Bowl appearance, Minnesota gets its first win, 21-3 over UCLA.
1962
Bobby Bell wins football’s Outland Trophy.
1962
Men’s Swimming and Diving finishes a program-best third at the NCAA Championships, winning four titles in the process. Steve Jackman wins the 50 and 100 freestyle while Virgil Luken (right) claims the 100 breaststroke crown.
1963
Roy Griak, who had won varsity letters in track and field and cross country at Minnesota, becomes head coach of the programs, a position he’ll hold for 33 years.
1964
The men’s swimming and diving program has claimed nine NCAA titles in four seasons, six of them won by Steve Jackman.
1964
For a third time, Minnesota’s baseball team wins the College World Series.
1967
Many women’s teams begin to expand competition schedules outside of intramural activities, facing other in-state universities and colleges although the teams are not officially recognized as varsity clubs.