If you search Minnesota Gophers message boards many informed posters will alert you that Malcolm Moos was the beginning of the end for Gopher football. Malcolm Moos is the first native Minnesotan to become President of the University, and the year he came to office, 1967 coincidently is the last year the football team won the Big Ten. Moos is often cited as the first in a long line of presidents whom hated the football team or athletics. There is even a, likely apocryphal, story about Moos suggesting the U of M should quit football entirely and field a soccer team instead.
Malcolm Moos: Minnesota Athletics villain or nah? #TBT
