1968 Rose Bowl

The 1968 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1968. It was the 54th Rose Bowl Game. The USC Trojans defeated the Indiana Hoosiers, 14–3. O. J. Simpson, the USC tailback, was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game.

Teams

USC Trojans

The top-ranked and Pac-8 champion Trojans came into the game with a 9–1 record, losing only to Oregon State in a close 3–0 game. They earned the #1 ranking after claiming a close 21–20 win over rival and then-#1 UCLA in the last week of their season, guaranteeing their spot in the Big Ten/Pac-8 classic. They were led by their powerful tailback O. J. Simpson. Unlike the Big Ten and the old Pacific Coast Conference, the Pac-8 had no rule against a team going to the Rose Bowl in consecutive years, thus allowing the Trojans to go to the Rose Bowl for the second straight year.

Indiana Hoosiers

The #4-ranked and co-Big Ten champion Hoosiers also came into the game with a 9–1 record, losing to Minnesota a week before defeating Purdue. A three-way league title championship was created when Indiana, Minnesota, and Purdue all finished with 6–1 league records, each defeating and losing to one of the other. Purdue was ineligible because of the "no-repeat" rule by the Big Ten and the "Rose Bowl or no bowl" rule enforced by both of the participating conferences (Big Ten and AAWU). Previously, Purdue had played in the 1967 Rose Bowl, beating Southern Cal, 14–13. The conference's athletic directors voted to award the Rose Bowl bid to Indiana over Minnesota, albeit not unanimously. Indiana was considered the logical choice because they were the only Big Ten school that had never played in the game.^[1] Minnesota coach Murray Walmath argued in vain that the Gophers deserved the bid because their prior two Rose Bowl teams, after the 1960 and 1961 seasons, received at-large bids because there was no agreement between the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl at the time; thus, technically, the Gophers never had received a Rose Bowl bid pursuant to that arrangement. Ironically, if Purdue had beaten Indiana in the season finale, the Boilermakers would have had sole possession of the conference championship, but Minnesota presumably would have received the Rose Bowl bid as the second place team in lieu of the ineligible Boilers. Instead, Indiana scored a 19–14 upset over Purdue, giving Minnesota a share of the conference championship but costing them a trip to Pasadena. Quarterback Harry Gonso led the Hoosiers into their first ever bowl game.

Scoring

First quarter

USC - Simpson 2-yard run (Aldredge kick)

Second quarter

Indiana - Kornowa 27-yard field goal

Third quarter

USC - Simpson 8-yard run (Aldredge kick)

Fourth quarter

None

References

↑ http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1967/11/26/page/53/article/indiana-wins-19-14-rose-bowl-bound

Rose Bowl Game

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Notes	No games were held from 1903 to 1915. The 1942 game was played at Duke Stadium in Durham, NC due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The game was also the national title game for the Bowl Championship Series in 2002 and 2006. The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its 2015 edition.

Indiana Hoosiers bowl games

1968 Rose Bowl 1979 Holiday Bowl 1986 All-American Bowl 1988 Peach Bowl 1988 Liberty Bowl 1990 Peach Bowl 1991 Copper Bowl 1993 Independence Bowl 2007 Insight Bowl 2015 Pinstripe Bowl 2016 Foster Farms Bowl

USC Trojans bowl games

Pound sign (#) denotes national championship game.

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