1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1971 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 seventh year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

1971 Indiana Hoosiers football
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record3–8 (2–6 Big Ten)
Head coach
MVPChuck Thomson
CaptainChuck Thomson
Home stadiumSeventeenth Street Stadium
(capacity: 52,324)
1971 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 6 Michigan $ 8 –0 –011 –1 –0
Northwestern 6 –3 –07 –4 –0
Ohio State 5 –3 –06 –4 –0
Michigan State 5 –3 –06 –5 –0
Illinois 5 –3 –05 –6 –0
Wisconsin 3 –5 –04 –6 –1
Minnesota 3 –5 –04 –7 –0
Purdue 3 –5 –03 –7 –0
Indiana 2 –6 –03 –8 –0
Iowa 1 –8 –01 –10 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 11at Minnesota
L 0–2828,549
September 18Kentucky*
W 26–841,954[1]
September 25at Baylor*
L 0–1027,500
October 2Syracuse*
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
L 0–731,989
October 9at Wisconsin
L 29–3566,156
October 161:30 p.m.No. 13 Ohio State
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
L 7–2750,812
October 23Northwesterndagger
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
L 10–24
October 30at No. 3 Michigan
L 7–6175,751[2]
November 6Illinois
  • Seventeenth Street Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
L 21–2223,018
November 13at Iowa
W 14–742,102
November 20Purdue
W 38–3150,978
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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1972 NFL draftees
PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Steve PorterWide receiver14341Cincinnati Bengals

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First one-point safety

The first known occurrence of a one-point safety (conversion safety) was in an NCAA game on October 2, 1971, scored by Syracuse in the first quarter of a game at Indiana. On a point-after-touchdown kick, the ball was kicked almost straight up in the air. An Indiana player illegally batted the ball in the end zone (a spot foul defensive penalty). Syracuse won the game, 7–0.[6][7][8] The 1970 rulebook (Rule 8-5-3) stated, "If a scrimmage kick fails to cross the neutral zone, or crosses the neutral zone and is first touched by Team B, or is untouched and then rebounds into the end zone where it is recovered by Team A, it is a safety," and (8-5-4) "If the penalty for a foul committed when the ball is free leaves the ball behind a goal line, it is a safety if behind the offender's goal line."[9]

References
  1. "Four field goals fire I.U. past Kentucky". The South Bend Tribune. September 19, 1971. Retrieved October 22, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Curt Sylvester (October 31, 1971). "Wowee! Michigan wins 61–7". Detroit Free Press. pp. 1D, 2D – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. "1971 Football Schedule". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  4. "1971 Homecoming". Indiana Arbutus (yearboook). Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  5. "1972 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on December 21, 2007.
  6. Hammel, Bob (October 3, 1971). "Hungry crowd finds a 'Darling' in defense". The Bedford Daily-Times Mail. Vol. 6, no. 5. Bedford, Indiana. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com. Kicker George Bodine's effort was far short, and [Mike] Heizman, standing in front of the goal posts, reacted to the falling ball by swatting it away, mosquito-swatting style. Center Greg Aulk fell on the ball for Syracuse. ... 'It was just a reflex action,' Heizman said. 'I never even thought about the ball being live.'
  7. "College Football Notes". The Vincennes Sun-Commercial. Vol. 41, no. 212. Vincennes, Indiana. October 6, 1971. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com. Syracuse was trying to kick the extra point after taking a 6-0 lead. The ball was kicked almost straight up in the air and was coming down obviously short of the crossbar when an Indiana player [illegally] batted the ball down in the end zone and Syracuse recovered.
  8. Nissenson, Herschel (October 5, 1971). "Grambling TV rating 'low'". The Shreveport Journal. Vol. 77. Shreveport, Louisiana. p. 10A – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Nelson, David M. (1970). 1970 NCAA Official Football Rules. Phoenix, Arizona: College Athletics Publishing Service. p. 59.


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