1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team explained
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.
Schedule
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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.[5] [6] [7] 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."[8]
1972 NFL draftees
[9] Notes and References
- Web site: . 1971 Indiana Hoosiers Schedule and Results . College Football @ Sports-Reference.com . . December 28, 2023 .
- Web site: . 1971 Football Schedule . . December 28, 2023 .
- Web site: . Indiana Football 2023 Record Book . . 15 . December 28, 2023 .
- Web site: 1971 Homecoming. Indiana Arbutus (yearboook). October 14, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160603075621/http://static.getsnworks.com/ids/arbutus/1972/. June 3, 2016.
- News: Hungry crowd finds a 'Darling' in defense. The Bedford Daily-Times Mail. Bedford, Indiana. October 3, 1971. 6. 5. 25. Bob. Hammel. 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.'. Newspapers.com.
- News: College Football Notes. The Vincennes Sun-Commercial. Vincennes, Indiana. 41. 212. October 6, 1971. 17. 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.. Newspapers.com.
- News: The Shreveport Journal. Shreveport, Louisiana. October 5, 1971. 10A. Grambling TV rating 'low'. Newspapers.com. Herschel. Nissenson. 77.
- Book: Nelson, David M.. 1970 NCAA Official Football Rules. 1970. 59. College Athletics Publishing Service. Phoenix, Arizona.
- Web site: 1972 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071221231837/http://www.pro-football-reference.com/draft/1972.htm. 2007-12-21. Pro-Football-Reference.com.
