Goldy Gopher was born a chipmunk ... At that time, many colleges were opting to use cartoon-like mascots and Grooms designed many of them. Steve Grooms said his father and another designer probably ...

Although this comparison makes Goldy’s mistaken identity seem obvious, other rodents have been mislabeled as gophers since before Minnesota became a state. The mischaracterization of the gopher began ...

One of them features our own mascot, Goldy the Gopher doing his after score pushups with an adjustable counter on the base so that you can keep track of the score of the next Gopher game ...

Minnesota has Goldy Gopher. Ohio has Brutus Buckeye ... From a failed attempt at keeping a live eagle in the 1910s, to a slack-jawed cartoon from The Walt Disney Studios, to an arduous and ...