1966 Indiana Hoosiers football team

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.

1966 Indiana Hoosiers football
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record1–8–1 (1–5–1 Big Ten)
Head coach
MVPFrank Stavroff
Home stadiumSeventeenth Street Stadium
(capacity: 48,344)
1966 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 2 Michigan State $ 7 0 09 0 1
No. 7 Purdue 6 1 09 2 0
Michigan 4 3 06 4 0
Illinois 4 3 04 6 0
Minnesota 3 3 14 5 1
Ohio State 3 4 04 5 0
Northwestern 2 4 13 6 1
Wisconsin 2 4 13 6 1
Indiana 1 5 11 8 1
Iowa 1 6 02 8 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 17Miami (OH)*L 10–20
September 24at NorthwesternW 26–14
October 17:30 pmat Texas*L 0–3556,000[1]
October 8Minnesota
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
T 7–734,721
October 15Illinoisdagger
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
L 10–2439,399
October 21at Miami (FL)*L 7–14
October 29at IowaL 19–20
November 5at Ohio StateL 0–780,834
November 12No. 2 Michigan State
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN (rivalry)
L 19–3730,096
November 19at No. 10 PurdueL 6–5162,197
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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1967 NFL draftees

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Bob Van PeltCenter5114Philadelphia Eagles

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References

  1. "56,000 see Texans rout Hoosiers, 35–0". The Indianapolis Star. October 2, 1966. Retrieved April 30, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  2. "1966 Football Schedule". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  3. "1966 Homecoming". Indiana Arbutus (yearboook). Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  4. "1967 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2007.


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