This upcoming Saturday the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gopher football team will go up against their rivals – the Badgers of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Kick-off is at 2:30 PM at TCF Bank Stadium. To show our school spirit, here are a few gophers and ground squirrels–from nature–found within the glass plate negative collection of the Bell Museum of Natural History.

Go Gophers!

– Gray gopher, Big Stone Lake, near Foster, 1924


– Gray gopher sitting up, Big Stone Lake, near Foster, 1924


– Richardson’s spermophile [ground squirrel], five young, ¾ grown, Red River Valley, June 1928


– Richardson’s spermophile [ground squirrel], two, one sitting up, Red River Valley, June 1928


– Richardson’s spermophile [ground squirrel], one sitting up, left view, 1928