Lorena Hickok, local reporter who became nationally famous as a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, got her start covering the Gopher football beat in the 1920s.
She was one of the first female sports reporters. To the players and her readers she was known as "Auntie Gopher", "Miss Gopher" or sometimes "Miss Goofer". Lorena covered the U of M football team in the 1920s and used her own dope descriptive style which eventually would gain her national attention. Before she left the Gopher beat to write about Eleanor Roosevelt she would describe (my new favorite Gopher) Herb Jostings this way:
Bare-headed and bare-handed in a lumberjack shirt of one-inch green and yellow checks, he sat bolt upright behind the wheel of one of the funniest-looking flivvers that ever spouted steam like a teakettle on a cold day.