Pacific at Indiana

Saturday, October 2, 1954

Indiana beat Pacific 34–⁠6. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayPacific4–⁠5 in 1954
6
HomeIndiana3–⁠6 in 1954
34

FinalHigh 85°F, low 67°FAttendance 18,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Indiana Tops Pacific AS HeIinski Stars

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 3, 1954, page 65

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    Indiana Tops Pacific AS HeIinski Stars BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. 2. -Florian Helinski, Indiana’s all purpose quarterback, threw two touchdown passes and scored once himself today in a 34–⁠6 Hoosier rout Of College Of Pacific. Milt Campbell, former National decathlon champion. scored his first touchdown for Indiana on q 77-yard punt return. Helinski, who kicked three exira points, started the touchdown parade with a 37-yard pass to Jim Stone late In the first quarter. He tossed to John Roberson in second-quarter scoring play that covered as yards. Helinski set up his own one yard touchdown plunge in the fourth period with a 48-yard pass to Pat Fellinger., George Bell plunged for the other Hoosier touchdown. Pacif1c’S second-quarter score was a short drive by Quarterback Bill Jacobs. Pacific – O g q o. a Indiana ------- z 6 Z 14–⁠34 Pacific scoring: Observation-Disclosures. Indiana scoring: Touchdowns---Stone Robertson, Campbell Helinski, Bell, Con- Fersions-Helinski t3}, Such.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Pacific 52% to win. Indiana won as Elo’s underdog.

Indiana leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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