Mike Reid, a two-year starter for the Gophers football team and former Gophers assistant coach, died Sunday.
Reid, who was a fullback and placekicker on the 1963 and 1964 teams, was living in St. Paul. He was 83.
A Wisconsin native from Spring Valley, about 60 miles east of Minneapolis, Reid provided the highlights for the Gophers in the 1963 season finale against Wisconsin at Memorial Stadium.
The game was originally scheduled for Nov. 23 but was postponed after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22 in Dallas. The game was played Nov. 28 — Thanksgiving Day — and Reid scored both touchdowns and kicked both PATs in the Gophers’ 14-0 victory. It was the Gophers’ first shutout of the Badgers since 1948 and left them with a 3-6 record.
Following the 1964 season, he was named second-team All-Big Ten and played in the Blue-Gray Football Classic all-star game in Montgomery, Ala. Reid kicked a field goal and an extra point in the Blue team’s 10-6 victory over Gray. The Blue team was coached by Gophers coach Murray Warmath. In June 1965, Reid played in the All-America football all-star game in Buffalo.
Reid was an assistant coach on Warmath’s staff for four seasons beginning in 1967. He left in May 1971 to go into business.
