Iowa at Indiana

Saturday, October 23, 1954

Iowa beat Indiana 27–⁠14. It was their 26th meeting; after it, Iowa led the series 12–⁠10–⁠4.

AwayIowa5–⁠4 in 1954
27
HomeIndiana3–⁠6 in 1954
14

FinalHigh 73°F, low 39°FAttendance 30,789

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: PITT NORTHWESTERN 7. Alert Iowa Converts ; Indiana FumbIes Into 27-14Victory

    Evening star, October 24, 1954, page 61

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    PITT NORTHWESTERN 7. Alert Iowa Converts ; Indiana FumbIes Into 27–⁠14Victory BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. %. -Iowa’s Hawkeyes turned three Indiana fumbles into second quarter touchdown drives, stood off . two-touchdown Indiana rally and beat the Hoosiers today. 27–⁠14. Earl Smith, Gary, Ind. boy visiting his home State, scored twice for the Hawks on a sizzling 48-yard run and on an IL yard pass from Ken Ploen. The second sewed up the game. Indiana lost two touchdowns, one on Milt Campbells tumble into the Iowa end zone and an other on Florian Helinski’s pass to Brad Bomba that was nullifled by an ineligible man down. field. Campbell. famed as q track star, fumbled twice but also scored one Of 1ndiana’s touch downs on a 32-yard run. Burly John Bartkiewicz galloped 80 yards for the other Hoosier marker. Other Iowa touchdowns were scored by Ed Vincent on a l. yard plunge and Roger Wiegmann on a 5-yard pitchout. James Freeman converted three extra points for Iowa and Helinski kicked Indiana’s two Iowa ---O o 21 0 6–⁠27 Indiana ------- o o 7–⁠14 Iowa scoring: Touchdown-vincent Smith t2). Wiegmann. Conversions Freeman (3). Indiana scoring: Touchdowns-Bart. kieWicZ Campbell C0nVarsi0ns-HeI.

  • The The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current's story: Miami Win |Sp,oils Terps' Chances

    The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 23, 1954, page 8 (results column)

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    Miami Win |Sp,oils Terps’ Chances Whatever chances the University Of Maryland had of returning to the Orange Bowl this New Years Day appeared doomed today in the wake of their 81 defeat by Miami (Fla.). Last nights game was an i’m portant one for Jim Tatum and his Terps. The national champions last year, they have taken bad nose-dive this season and now are out Of the national picture. They dropped an early season game to UCLA and were tied by Wake For est in addition to the Miami defeat. For the indicated Hurricanes, the victory will do much to ennance their national ranking. They are ineligible for bowl bid, how ever, because of difficulties with the NCAA. The teams fought on even terms until 10 seconds before the hall when Bob Nolan made a fine leap ing catch of a 21-yard pass by Mario Bonofiglio for the first score. The Hurricanes made it sc when Ronnie Waller was knocked down behind his goal line for safety. The Terps couldn’t score until their hopes were all but dead with four minutes left. Houston turned back Villanova % to Z before a grocery” crowd | of 81 ,8l7 in Philadelphia. A grocery chain distributed tickets to custom ers who purchased $40 worth Of goods. Jack Patterson scored three touchdowns and pitched for the other Houston score. Halback Bob Burmeier performed almost as well as Patterson when he bulled over for three touchdowns in Detroit’s 28–⁠18 Missouri, Valley Conference victory over Tulsa. The Golden Hurricanes, who haven’t won a game, never were in it and scored IL Of their points in the final period after Detroit had run up 28–⁠6 margin. In other major games last night George Washington and William and Mary played a 1913 tie; Fur man scored an expected triumph over Davidson 1877; Chattanooga own its fourth straight at-home game, as, from East Texas State and Denver knocked Wichita out of the unbeaten ranks 27–⁠14. The big boys got into action today and at Columbus, Ohio, Wis cousin ranked No. 2 in The AsSo. ciated Press weekly poll met Ohio State No. 4 with a possible Rose Bowl bid in the balance. This was the big test in the Badgers bid for the Big Ten title. Mississippi, No. 5 got its first severe test when it met Arkansas, No. 7, the surprise of the Southwest Conference. Ole Miss, which has a rather easy SEIZED ule, is the co-leader of the South eastern Conference. Both clubs have bowl bids, in mind. Southern California may not win the Pacific Coast Conference title, but the Trojans could make the Rose Bowl if they whip California. UCLA, the favorite, is ineligible. Oklahoma, the No. l team in the country in the weekly Associated Press poll, entertained Kan sas State. Minnesota, No. 8, faced a rough assignment in Michigan. The GOphers are unbeaten and they, too, have a chance to win the Western Conference title. Other top games: EAST-Temple at Brown, Corn ell at Princeton, Dartmouth at Harvard, Springfield at Boston Col lege, Army at Columbia, West Virginia at VMI, Boston u. at Holy Cross, Northwestern at Pitt, Navy at Penn. MIDWEST 49, Iowa at Indiana. Iowa State at Missouri, Purdue at Michigan State, Xavier, Ohio al Cincinnati, Fordham at Marquette. SOUTH – Mississippi State at Alabama, Florida State at Auburn, Dayton at Tennessee, Georgia at Tulane, Wake Forest at North Car. DINA, Virginia VS.. Virginia Tech at Roanoke, Florida at Louisiana State, Duke at North Carolina State. SOUTHWEST and FAR WEST Texas Ann at Baylor, Hardin. Simmons VS.. Oklahoma Ann al Odessa, Tex, Idaho at Washington State, San Jose at Oregon, Texas Tech at College of the Pacific Washington at Stanford, Arizona at New Mexico, Utah at Wyoming Montana at Brigham Young. Penn A. “a II

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)

Iowa 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Iowa leads 46–⁠29–⁠4 in 79 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Indiana 20, Iowa 15
2021Iowa 34, Indiana 6
2018Iowa 42, Indiana 16
2015Iowa 35, Indiana 27
2014Iowa 45, Indiana 29
2012Indiana 24, Iowa 21

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