10/16/1976 (1976-1977)

Kinnick Stadium [Iowa City, Iowa]

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L 7 - 14

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Head Coach: Bob Commings
Attendance: 57,465

RECAP

The Hawkeyes scored on a 74 yard touchdown run by freshman Dennis Mosley in the first quarter, but would only move the ball to Indiana territory twice the rest of the day, never crossing the Indiana 40 yard line.

Iowa tried a 57 yard field goal late in the fourth quarter to break a 7-7 tie, but the kick failed to make it to the end zone. Indiana took over at the 20 yard line and drove the length of the field for the go ahead touchdown with 4:33 left to play.

The Hawkeyes completed only three of 13 passes on the day, and didn't complete a pass until the fourth quarter. Starting quarterback Butch Caldwell was benched in the fourth quarter for Tom McLaughlin. Caldwell was seen yelling at the Iowa offensive line on the sidelines. After the game McLaughlin and others questioned Iowa's play calling.

1 2 3 4 F

Iowa 7 0 0 0 7

Indiana 7 0 0 7 14

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HIGHLIGHTS

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PLAYER GAME QUOTES

We should open up our offense more. We should throw more on first down. Everybody looks at us to run the first two downs and then pass on third down. Indiana's defense was laughing at us every time we came out of the huddle. That made us made and maybe bothered our concentration.
-- Tom Grine
Grine questioning Iowa's play calling against Indiana.

Why wait till the fourth quarter to pass. The films showed that Indiana's secondary didn't look too good. I thought we should have thrown more.
-- Tom McLaughlin
McLaughlin questioning Iowa's play calling in a loss against Indiana.

Missing photo for Steve Wojan I thought we (offensive line) played pretty bad and deserved to be chewed out.
-- Steve Wojan
Steve Wojan talking about Butch Caldwell chewing out the offensive line on the sidelines during the Indiana game.

COACH GAME QUOTES

This is the worst loss I've had to deal with at Iowa. We're not going to surrender though. We just didn't play inspired football today, and I'm to blame for that. If we had been emotionally right I think we could have won.
-- Bob Commings

DETAILED TEAM STATS

Statistics Iowa Indiana

Total First Downs 11 21

Rushing Attempts 34 68

Rushing Yards 211 299

Rushing TDs 1 2

Yards per Rush 6.2 4.4

Passes Completed 3 8

Passes Attempts 13 14

Pass Completion % 23.1% 57.1%

Passing TDs 0 0

Passing Yards 34 61

Passing Yards per Completion 11.3 7.6

Passing Yards per Attempt 2.6 4.4

Touchdowns 1 2

Total Plays 47 82

% of Rushing Plays 72.3% 82.9%

% of Passing Plays 27.7% 17.1%

Total Offense 245 360

Yards per Play 5.2 4.4

Lost Fumbles 1 0

Interceptions 0 1

Turnovers 1 1

Penalties 2 4

Penalty Yards 20 60

Yards per Penalty 10.0 15.0

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10/16/1976 (1976-1977)

Kinnick Stadium [Iowa City, Iowa]

Kinnick Stadium [Iowa City, Iowa]

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