This tweet from Norries Wilson, the Gopher football Director of Player Development sounds like a cool story, but also just doesn’t seem plausible.
Gopher football player Frank "Dinky" Rog, who spent a lot of time there in the 40's and 50's is listed as a possible origin of the name! pic.twitter.com/v5nHGdgbWt
— Norries Wilson (@NorriesWilson) August 2, 2017
For someone I’ve never heard of it’s pretty cool that Frank “Dinky” Rog has been immortalized in this way. Frank Rog played tight end for the Gophers in 1952 and 1953. A couple things wrong with this theory, firstly the Dinkytown Business Association was founded in 1948, several years before Frank came to campus.