The departure of Spears brought the hiring of Fritz Crisler.
Crisler would stay at Minnesota just two seasons before 
moving on the greater success at Princeton and Michigan.
Crisler's best player was lineman Clarence 'Biggie' Munn,
who himself would become a superb head coach at Michigan
State after World War II.

To replace Crisler, the Gophers hired Bernie Bierman. The
former football and track star from the Williams era would
demand precision and perfection from his Gopher teams. This
approach would pay huge dividends.

His first Gopher team forged a 5-3 record, but he was
incubating a dynasty. 1933 saw the Gophers go 4-0-4, and
suddenly his squad could play with anybody. 

Bierman's Gophers reached a peak in 1934, as his team
rolled to an 8-0 mark and the National Championship. Led
by left halfback Pug Lund, the Gophers fielded all-stars
at virtually every position. So deep were the Gophers that
it has been suggested that even their second-string would
likely have gone unbeaten. The only team able to come close
to the Gophers was Pittsburgh, who succumbed 13-7 in a 
classic battle that would eventually determine collegiate
supremacy.

For various reasons, the Gophers lost more talent after the
1934 season than most schools do in a decade. Still, Bierman's
coolly-efficient single-wing offense continued to roll. The
Gophers again finished 8-0, and were again acclaimed National
Champions by most polling organizations.

The Gophers' winning streak would finally come to an end in
1936 with an unexpected loss to Northwestern, but they
would rally to finish 7-1 and win the National Championship
for the third year in a row. Minnesota football was truly on 
top of the world.

The Gophers would win Big Ten titles in both 1937 and 1938
with 6-2 records, which after the previous three years must
have seemed like a letdown. They would fall below .500 in 1939,
but that season could not detract from what had been a truly
"Golden" decade for the Gophers.