1966 Indiana Hoosiers football team
American college football season
1966 Indiana Hoosiers football | |
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Conference | Big Ten Conference |
Record | 1–8–1 (1–5–1 Big Ten) |
Head coach |
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MVP | Frank Stavroff |
Home stadium |
Seventeenth Street Stadium
(capacity: 48,344) |
Seasons
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||
No. 2 Michigan State $ | 7 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||
No. 7 Purdue | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||
Michigan | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
Illinois | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||
Minnesota | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||
Ohio State | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||
Northwestern | 2 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||
Wisconsin | 2 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||
Indiana | 1 | – | 5 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 8 | – | 1 | ||
Iowa | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||
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The 1966 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1966 Big Ten Conference football season . The Hoosiers played their home games at Seventeenth Street Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana . The team was coached by John Pont , in his second year as head coach of the Hoosiers.
Schedule
Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 17 | Miami (OH) * | L 10–20 | ||||
September 24 | at Northwestern | W 26–14 | ||||
October 1 | 7:30 pm | at Texas * | L 0–35 | 56,000 | [1] | |
October 8 | Minnesota |
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T 7–7 | 34,721 | ||
October 15 |
Illinois
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L 10–24 | 39,399 | ||
October 21 | at Miami (FL) * | L 7–14 | ||||
October 29 | at Iowa | L 19–20 | ||||
November 5 | at Ohio State | L 0–7 | 80,834 | |||
November 12 | No. 2 Michigan State |
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L 19–37 | 30,096 | ||
November 19 | at No. 10 Purdue | L 6–51 | 62,197 | |||
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1967 NFL draftees
Player | Position | Round | Pick | NFL club |
Bob Van Pelt | Center | 5 | 114 | Philadelphia Eagles |
References
- ↑ "56,000 see Texans rout Hoosiers, 35–0" . The Indianapolis Star . October 2, 1966 . Retrieved April 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "1966 Football Schedule" . Sports Reference LLC . Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
- ↑ "1966 Homecoming" . Indiana Arbutus (yearboook). Archived from the original on August 14, 2017 . Retrieved October 14, 2015 .
- ↑ "1967 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com" . Pro-Football-Reference.com . Archived from the original on 2007-12-21.
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