1955 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1955 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1955 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Bernie Crimmins, in his fourth year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

1955 Indiana Hoosiers football
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record3–6 (1–5 Big Ten)
Head coach
MVPBob Skoronski
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
(capacity: 20,000)
1955 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Ohio State $ 6 0 07 2 0
No. 2 Michigan State 5 1 09 1 0
No. 12 Michigan 5 2 07 2 0
Purdue 4 2 15 3 1
Illinois 3 3 15 3 1
Wisconsin 3 4 04 5 0
Iowa 2 3 13 5 1
Minnesota 2 5 03 6 0
Indiana 1 5 03 6 0
Northwestern 0 6 10 8 1
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Michigan StateL 13–2023,000[1]
October 1at No. 4 Notre Dame*L 0–1956,494
October 8at IowaL 6–20
October 15Villanova*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
W 14–7
October 22at NorthwesternW 20–1429,700
October 29Ohio*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
W 21–14
November 5at No. 11 Ohio StateL 13–2080,730
November 12at No. 7 MichiganL 0–3061,019
November 19Purdue
L 4–635,000
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

[2]

1956 NFL draftees

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Bob SkoronskiTackle556Green Bay Packers

[3]

References

  1. George S. Alderton (September 25, 1955). "Fast Start for Michigan State's Youngsters: Sophs Spark Spartans In 'Comeback' Victory Over Indiana, 20 to 13". Lansing State Journal. pp. 67, 71 via Newspapers.com.
  2. "1955 Football Schedule". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  3. "Reference at www.pro-football-reference.com". Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2018.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.