Hoosier Legacy Player: Tom Nowatzke (RB, LB, K 1962-1964)

Hoosier Legacy Player: Tom Nowatzke (RB, LB, K 1962-1964)

Written By David Sugarman

The next installment on our list in the Hoosier Legacy Series is a player who excelled at not one, not two, but three different positions. Tom Nowatzke played running back, linebacker and kicked field goals in his time for the Hoosiers and despite not being in the College Football Hall of Fame, is one of the greatest Indiana Football players of all-time.

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Hoosier Legacy Player: Pete Pihos (1943,1945)

Written By David Sugarman

With another school year becoming history we thought it was time to take a look at some of Indiana Football’s history.  Today in the next installment of our Hoosier Legacy Series we take a look at Pete Pihos, a man who defined what it meant to be a warrior both on and off the football field.

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Hoosier Huddle's Sit Down With IU Head Coach Tom Allen

Hoosier Huddle's Sit Down With IU Head Coach Tom Allen

Yesterday Tom Allen invited Hoosier Huddle's Sammy Jacobs as well as TheHoosier.com's Stu Jackson, and Taylor Lehman of the IDS into his office to discus the IU Football program. We talked for just over half an hour and covered a wide range of topics spanning from recruiting to prepping for the season opener against Ohio State on August 31st. Below is our conversation, featuring questions from all three writers.

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Hoosier Legacy Player: Halfback Zora Clevenger (1900-03)

Hoosier Legacy Player: Halfback Zora Clevenger (1900-03)

Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)

The Hoosier Legacy Series continues here on Hoosier Huddle! Today, we take a look at one of the greatest athletes to ever “lace ‘em up” for the Cream and Crimson: Zora Clevenger. 
Playing a Division I sport is an incredibly impressive accomplishment. Playing two sports at that level is a rarity and the sign of a terrific athlete. Playing three sports at a top-level college like IU? That’s unheard of. But it’s something the great Zora Clevenger did at the beginning of the 1900s and his accomplishments, while they are truly history to us today, should not be forgotten or glossed over. 

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Hoosier Legacy Player: Center John Tavener

Hoosier Legacy Player: Center John Tavener

Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)

When putting together a list of IU’s greatest football players of all-time, John Tavener is not a name that will come to many people’s minds right away. He played in the mid-1940s and was a center, certainly not a glamorous position. That being said, when you review Tavener’s credentials, there is no doubt he belongs on any list of IU’s “best of all-time”.

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