American college football season
1968 Wisconsin Badgers football |
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Conference | Big Ten Conference |
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Record | 0–10 (0–7 Big Ten) |
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Head coach | |
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Base defense | Harry Gonso |
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MVP | Ken Criter |
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Captain | Wally Schoessow |
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Home stadium | Camp Randall Stadium |
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The 1968 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1968 Big Ten Conference football season. The team was led by second-year head coach John Coatta, and they competed in the Big Ten Conference. The Badgers finished the season 0–10 (0–7 in Big Ten, last); to date, this is the first (and only) time the Badgers have finished winless.
This was the first season of artificial turf at Camp Randall Stadium;[1][2] the Tartan Turf home opener was against Washington of the Pac-8,[3] who had just installed AstroTurf at their Husky Stadium in Seattle.[4] Outside of these two, the only other University Division venues with synthetic turf in 1968 were the Astrodome (Houston) and Neyland Stadium (Tennessee).
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
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September 21 | at Arizona State* | | L 7–55 | 43,317 |
September 28 | Washington* | | L 17–21 | 42,965 |
October 5 | No. 19 Michigan State | - Camp Randall Stadium
- Madison, WI
| L 0–39 | 49,067 |
October 12 | Utah State* | - Camp Randall Stadium
- Madison, WI
| L 0–20 | 37,469 |
October 19 | at Iowa | | L 0–41 | 45,651 |
October 26 | at Northwestern | | L 10–13 | 33,133 |
November 2 | Indiana | - Camp Randall Stadium
- Madison, WI
| L 20–21 | 51,666 |
November 9 | No. 2 Ohio State | - Camp Randall Stadium
- Madison, WI
| L 8–43 | 40,972 |
November 16 | at No. 4 Michigan | | L 9–34 | 51,117 |
November 23 | Minnesota | | L 15–23 | 39,214 |
- *Non-conference game
- Homecoming
- Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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- Source:[5]
Roster
1968 Wisconsin Badgers football team roster |
Players | Coaches |
Offense | Defense | Special teams | - Head coach
- Coordinators/assistant coaches
- Legend
- (C) Team captain
- (S) Suspended
- (I) Ineligible
- Injured
- Redshirt
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NFL/AFL Draft selections
Two University of Wisconsin Badgers were selected in the 1969 NFL/AFL draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.
- Source:[6]
References
- ^ "Synthetic grass at UW passes 1st test". Milwaukee Sentinel. September 10, 1968. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ "Badgers try ersatz turf". Milwaukee Sentinel. September 10, 1968. p. 13, part 2.
- ^ Kuechele, Oliver (September 27, 1968). "UW plays Huskies; no relief is in sight". Milwaukee Journal. p. 19, part 2.
- ^ Bochat, Rel (September 28, 1968). "Huskies test UW, new rug today". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
- ^ "Wisconsin Badgers Index". sports-reference.com. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ "1969 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on December 21, 2007.
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