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American college football season
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 September 21 at
Arizona State * L 7–5543,317
September 28
Washington * L 17–2142,965
October 5 No. 19
Michigan State Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI L 0–3949,067
October 12
Utah State * Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI L 0–2037,469
October 19 at
Iowa L 0–4145,651
October 26 at
Northwestern L 10–1333,133
November 2
Indiana Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI L 20–2151,666
November 9 No. 2
Ohio State Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI L 8–4340,972
November 16 at No. 4
Michigan L 9–3451,117
November 23
Minnesota L 15–2339,214
*Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from
AP Poll released prior to the game
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
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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