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Big Ten rules at the time didn’t allow the same team to go to the Rose Bowl in consecutive years, so Purdue was out regardless. They went after Michigan State fell to the same fate in 1966. If Indiana beat Purdue, there would be a three-way tie for the title and the Hoosiers would go to the Rose Bowl because they had never been there before. The Gophers had gone in ’61.
The Gophers took care of Wisconsin, 21-14, and retained Paul Bunyan’s Axe, but Purdue running back Perry Williams had fumbled on Indiana’s goal line, giving the Hoosiers a 19-15 win and berth in the Rose Bowl. It’s considered the greatest game in Indiana football history.
Carter, the Gophers’ fullback, later played with Williams on the Green Bay Packers.
“I never forgave him,” he said.
Gophers end Bob Stein was an All-American on the 1967 team. He grew up in St. Louis Park and had pictures of star players from the early ’60s Gophers teams on his bedroom walls in junior high school.
“We hoped to emulate them,” he said. The Rose Bowl snub “was even more of a letdown because of that.”
The bond between players has been strong throughout. More than 30 teammates attended tight end Charlie Sanders’ induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio in 2007. He was one of an estimated 15 players from the 1967 who played in the NFL.
“The memory has been the relationships with the teammates built up over the years,” Stein said. “There are so many guys that I consider to be valuable friends, and a number of them we’ve lost in recent years. That has been more meaningful than any of the on-the-field stuff.”
When Ron Kamzelski, a defensive tackle on the ’67 team, passed away in Pennsylvania in August, his obituary included this line: “His Golden Gophers have always been his pride and joy.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/2...nd-heartache-on-way-to-us-last-big-ten-title/
Go Gophers!!
Big Ten rules at the time didn’t allow the same team to go to the Rose Bowl in consecutive years, so Purdue was out regardless. They went after Michigan State fell to the same fate in 1966. If Indiana beat Purdue, there would be a three-way tie for the title and the Hoosiers would go to the Rose Bowl because they had never been there before. The Gophers had gone in ’61.
The Gophers took care of Wisconsin, 21-14, and retained Paul Bunyan’s Axe, but Purdue running back Perry Williams had fumbled on Indiana’s goal line, giving the Hoosiers a 19-15 win and berth in the Rose Bowl. It’s considered the greatest game in Indiana football history.
Carter, the Gophers’ fullback, later played with Williams on the Green Bay Packers.
“I never forgave him,” he said.
Gophers end Bob Stein was an All-American on the 1967 team. He grew up in St. Louis Park and had pictures of star players from the early ’60s Gophers teams on his bedroom walls in junior high school.
“We hoped to emulate them,” he said. The Rose Bowl snub “was even more of a letdown because of that.”
The bond between players has been strong throughout. More than 30 teammates attended tight end Charlie Sanders’ induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio in 2007. He was one of an estimated 15 players from the 1967 who played in the NFL.
“The memory has been the relationships with the teammates built up over the years,” Stein said. “There are so many guys that I consider to be valuable friends, and a number of them we’ve lost in recent years. That has been more meaningful than any of the on-the-field stuff.”
When Ron Kamzelski, a defensive tackle on the ’67 team, passed away in Pennsylvania in August, his obituary included this line: “His Golden Gophers have always been his pride and joy.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/2...nd-heartache-on-way-to-us-last-big-ten-title/
Go Gophers!!