American college football season
1976 Iowa Hawkeyes football |
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Conference | Big Ten Conference |
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Record | 5–6 (3–5 Big Ten) |
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Head coach | - Bob Commings (3rd season)
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Defensive coordinator | Larry Coyer (3rd season) |
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MVP | Butch Caldwell, Tom Grine |
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Captain | Butch Caldwell, Tom Grine |
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Home stadium | Kinnick Stadium |
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The 1976 Iowa Hawkeyes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Iowa in the 1976 Big Ten Conference football season. In their third year under head coach Bob Commings, the Hawkeyes compiled a 5–6 record (3–5 against conference opponents) and finished in a three-way tie for seventh place in the Big Ten.[1]
Quarterback Butch Caldwell and tight end Tom Grine were selected as the team's most valuable players.[2] Caldwell led the team with 616 passing yards and 1,005 yards of total offense. Jon Lazar led the team in rushing with 392 yards.[3] Tom Rusk was selected by the conference coaches as a second-team linebacker on the UPI's 1976 All-Big Ten Conference football team.[4]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
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September 11 | at Illinois | | L 6–24 | 49,515 |
September 18 | Syracuse* | | W 41–3 | 54,129 |
September 25 | at No. 11 Penn State* | | W 7–6 | 61,268 |
October 2 | at No. 13 USC* | | L 0–55 | 55,518 |
October 9 | No. 10 Ohio State | - Kinnick Stadium
- Iowa City, IA
| L 14–34 | 59,170 |
October 16 | Indiana | - Kinnick Stadium
- Iowa City, IA
| L 7–14 | 57,465 |
October 23 | at Minnesota | | W 22–12 | 53,222 |
October 30 | Northwestern | - Kinnick Stadium
- Iowa City, IA
| W 13–10 | 51,800 |
November 6 | at Wisconsin | | L 21–38 | 79,120 |
November 13 | Purdue | - Kinnick Stadium
- Iowa City, IA
| L 0–21 | 44,763 |
November 20 | at Michigan State | | W 30–17 | 48,412 |
- *Non-conference game
- Homecoming
- Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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Roster
1976 Iowa Hawkeyes football team roster |
Players | Coaches |
Offense Pos. | # | Name | Class | QB | 17 | Butch Caldwell (C) | Sr | QB | | Tom McLaughlin | Jr | RB | 18 | Dennis Mosley | Fr | TE | | Tom Grine (C) | Sr | | Defense Pos. | # | Name | Class | DB | 21 | Jim Caldwell | Sr | DB | | Rod Sears | | Special teams Pos. | # | Name | Class | P | 98 | Dan Matter | K | | Nick Quartaro | Sr | | - Head coach
- Coordinators/assistant coaches
- Legend
- (C) Team captain
- (S) Suspended
- (I) Ineligible
- Injured
- Redshirt
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Game summaries
At Illinois
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Syracuse
At Penn State
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | • Hawkeyes | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | No. 11 Nittany Lions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
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Scoring summary |
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| Q1 | | IOWA | Renn 2 yard run (Quartaro kick) | IOWA 7–0 | | Q4 | | PSU | Suhey 1 yard run (pass failed) | IOWA 7–6 | |
Penn State missed a 25-yard field goal with 47 seconds left.[7]
At USC
Ohio State
Indiana
At Minnesota
Northwestern
At Wisconsin
Purdue
At Michigan State
References
- ^ "1976 Big Ten Conference Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
- ^ Roy Damer (December 25, 1975). "Lytle named Big 10 MVP: Purdue's Dierking is runnerup". Chicago Tribune. p. 2-1.
- ^ "1976 Iowa Hawkeyes Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ "Illini place two on All-Big 10". The Pantagraph. November 24, 1976. p. A11.
- ^ "1976 Iowa Hawkeyes Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ^ "Iowa suffers casualties, errors" (PDF). Daily Iowan. September 13, 1976. p. 8. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
- ^ Eugene Register-Guard. 1976 Sep 26. Retrieved 2018-Sep-23.
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