INDIANA FOOTBALL 11/25/1967 HOOSIER'S DEFEAT PURDUE'S BEST TEAM!

[@centralpete6044]

I was listening to the local sports radio station here in Minneapolis a few years ago and I they were talking to Bob Stein who was on the ‘67 Gopher team (and later was GM of the expansion Timberwolves). Anyways, he said that after they beat Wisconsin that afternoon, they were watching this Indiana-Purdue game on tv in the locker room with great interest as Purdue was driving at the end and a Purdue score would have sent the Gophers to the Rose Bowl. He said the mood in the locker room changed quite a bit with that fumble at 4:48

[@decalpro1]

I had the pleasure of being present at this game. Terry Cole's touchdown run was so exciting. I'm glad to see it here again on KZbin, more than 50 years later. IU, class of '68.

[@elishakaskiw6853]

I was there too! Remember being in town after waiting for the Big 10 to decide between us and Minnesota on going to Rose Bowl. Proud grad 68!

[@NOLAMarathon2010]

I grew up in Champaign, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois...but I remember a lot of the players identified in this game: Harry Gonso, John Isenbarger, Mike Phipps, Leroy Keyes.

[@mikevalenza]

I was seven years old at the time and listened to at least part of that game on the radio. IU was having an amazing season but had lost its first game of the season in the previous week to Minnesota (by a score of 33-7), and the only way for them to get to the Rose Bowl was to defeat Purdue, thanks in part to Big Ten rules at the time that prevented a team from going to the Rose Bowl two years in a row. IU missed its first extra point after a touchdown and was unable to score a two-point conversion on their second TD, so after their third TD they ended up the with 19 points, to Purdue's 7. Isenbarger, Gonso, and Butcher are all names of players on that team that have stayed with me after all these years. It was a very exciting game. Unfortunately, they were then beaten by OJ Simpson's USC team in the Rose Bowl.

[@harponercam]

By a quirk of fate- my sisters first semester in collee at IU- I saw a number of the home games that year- although not this one- but it was one come-from-behind upset after another usually, ending in the Rose Bowl's, the last since 1969

[@markmontieth8815]

Who's doing the narration?

[@MichaelSmith-ff9il]

Coach John Pont