While I am 90 years old now, by 1967 I has become a IU football season ticket holder. Like IU now, IU's football history was terrible.one of the more recent hires Phil Dickens plunged the entire athletic program in despair resulting in an almost four year suspension because of recruiting violations. John Pont (I think from Yale or some Ivy league school) was hired....an the magical never before football success resulted. That my wife (who I met at IU-we just celebrated our 65th wedding anniversary) went to 7 games, home and away including the Rose Bowl.
Indiana was ranked 6th in the country--many people don't remember that Purdue was ranked 5th in the country. Mich St was having a down year with a 2 wins and 5 losses record. Still many thought IU was an underdog. IU's winning streak was by the following margins, 2,3,4,5,7, 13. The weather favored MSU, gray,rains,windy dark skies. INDIANA held on to win 14-13-the magic of Harry Gonzo prevailed. One play we remembered was John Isengarger punting for IU when MSU tried to take him out of the game with a illegal tackle after he had punted the ball, run John run became a chant for the season. Indiana attemped 18 passes and completed 9, but had two turnovers fumbles.
With 6 minutes left in the game IU trailed 13 to 7. Isenbarger after being knocked out of the game, drove the the Hoosiers to the winning touchdown and the IU dream season moved on. It was a memorable day for us-driving back to Chicago suburbs, stopping at Win Schulers for dinner was a great trip. 57 years have passed since then.
We saw two more games after that-at Minnesota and home to Purdue- still in my mind the greatest IU game we ever saw.
Indiana was ranked 6th in the country--many people don't remember that Purdue was ranked 5th in the country. Mich St was having a down year with a 2 wins and 5 losses record. Still many thought IU was an underdog. IU's winning streak was by the following margins, 2,3,4,5,7, 13. The weather favored MSU, gray,rains,windy dark skies. INDIANA held on to win 14-13-the magic of Harry Gonzo prevailed. One play we remembered was John Isengarger punting for IU when MSU tried to take him out of the game with a illegal tackle after he had punted the ball, run John run became a chant for the season. Indiana attemped 18 passes and completed 9, but had two turnovers fumbles.
With 6 minutes left in the game IU trailed 13 to 7. Isenbarger after being knocked out of the game, drove the the Hoosiers to the winning touchdown and the IU dream season moved on. It was a memorable day for us-driving back to Chicago suburbs, stopping at Win Schulers for dinner was a great trip. 57 years have passed since then.
We saw two more games after that-at Minnesota and home to Purdue- still in my mind the greatest IU game we ever saw.
