Mom dated Ted Kluzewski?
@mushroomgod ... Oh, I'm probably as old or older than you...My mom dated one of the starting ends on the 1945 team and I think I had the entire 1945 starting lineup memorized by the time I was able to read!... I was also at the old stadium for a Little 5.. One of my earliest memories of IU football was listening to the 1962 Bucket game on the radio and hearing the call as Marv Woodson returned an interception 92 yards for a TD and as they were calling it my mom was cheering so loud I could hardly hear the announcers call!.... I remember as a freshman in HS watching the Rose Bowl at our neighbors house on their brand new COLOR RCA TV! ..... I'm a huge college and pro football history fan, too... I've been called a true plethora of useless information 😆 ... Or, as my mom would always joke (okay, some times she wasn't joking) with me, "If you worked as hard on your homework as you do on reading college football and auto racing stats, you'd be a Rhodes Scholar.".... .... BTW, here's something you might like, Tom Cousineau's dad was an assistant football coach at my HS in Indianapolis my freshman year.
Good to know another college football nerd. I'll put together my all-time IU team and share it with you at some point.
For anyone else that might see this.....Indiana's had some quirky football history when it comes to BT MVPs. Chuck Bennett in 1928, Vern Huffman in 1936, Corbett Davis in 1937, and Tim Clifford in 1979 were all named BTMVP for teams which weren't at the top of the league. I find Clifford's pick odd in that Art Schlichter of OSU was 1st team ABT and 4th in the Heisman voting, while Tim was only 2nd team ABT. OSU was first that year, Purdue 2nd, IU 4th. That was the team that beat BYU in the bowl game. Clifford's #s were very good but not any better that those of Schlichter or Mark Hermann of Purdue. Purdue had a hell of a team that included Hermann, Dave Young, Keena Turner and several other ABT players.
@mushroomgod Don't point that finger at us for the media narrative...haha. That team was VERY good. Obviously missing a few key pieces up front, but the 2024 was a legit top 10 team.
It’s unfortunate that Nick Kidwell got hurt. I think he would’ve helped that offensive line.