Several Indiana players ranked among the Big Ten leaders, including the following:
Quarterback Babe Laufenberg ranked third in the conference with a 57.1% pass completion percentage, fifth with 1,788 passing yards, and sixth with a 118.5 passing efficiency rating.[1]
Wide receiver Duane Gunn led the conference with an average of 21.2 yards per reception and 27.3 yards per kickoff return and sixth with 656 receiving yards.[1]
Marc Longshore ranked fifth in the conference with four interceptions.[1]
Doug Smith kicked the go-ahead 39-yard field goal with 8:30 left in the game and Indiana's defense stopped two ensuing Purdue drives with interceptions to preserve the victory.
1981, indiana, hoosiers, football, team, represented, indiana, hoosiers, 1981, conference, football, season, they, participated, members, conference, hoosiers, played, their, home, games, memorial, stadium, bloomington, indiana, team, coached, corso, ninth, ye. The 1981 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1981 Big Ten Conference football season They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington Indiana The team was coached by Lee Corso in his ninth year as head coach of the Hoosiers 1981 Indiana Hoosiers footballConferenceBig Ten ConferenceRecord3 8 3 6 Big Ten Head coachLee Corso 9th season Defensive coordinatorRon Corradini 1st season MVPBob StephensonCaptainBob Stephenson Craig WallsHome stadiumMemorial StadiumSeasons 19801982 1981 Big Ten Conference football standings vte Conf Overall Team W L T W L T No 15 Ohio State 6 2 0 9 3 0 No 18 Iowa 6 2 0 8 4 0 No 12 Michigan 6 3 0 9 3 0 Illinois 6 3 0 7 4 0 Wisconsin 6 3 0 7 5 0 Minnesota 4 5 0 6 5 0 Michigan State 4 5 0 5 6 0 Purdue 3 6 0 5 6 0 Indiana 3 6 0 3 8 0 Northwestern 0 9 0 0 11 0 Conference co championsRankings from AP Poll Several Indiana players ranked among the Big Ten leaders including the following Quarterback Babe Laufenberg ranked third in the conference with a 57 1 pass completion percentage fifth with 1 788 passing yards and sixth with a 118 5 passing efficiency rating 1 Wide receiver Duane Gunn led the conference with an average of 21 2 yards per reception and 27 3 yards per kickoff return and sixth with 656 receiving yards 1 Marc Longshore ranked fifth in the conference with four interceptions 1 Contents 1 Schedule 2 Game summaries 2 1 Purdue 3 Roster 4 ReferencesSchedule editDateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendanceSourceSeptember 12at NorthwesternDyche StadiumEvanston ILW 21 2022 856 September 19No 2 USC Memorial StadiumBloomington INONTVL 21 051 167 September 26at Syracuse Carrier DomeSyracuse NYL 7 2132 060 2 October 31 30 p m No 8 MichiganMemorial StadiumBloomington INL 17 3850 612 October 10at No 15 IowaKinnick StadiumIowa City IAL 28 4260 000 October 17Minnesota nbsp Memorial StadiumBloomington INW 17 1646 460 October 24at Ohio StateOhio StadiumColumbus OHL 10 2987 182 October 31at Michigan StateSpartan StadiumEast Lansing MI rivalry L 3 2660 131 November 7WisconsinMemorial StadiumBloomington INL 7 2844 218 November 14at IllinoisMemorial StadiumChampaign ILL 14 3556 143 November 21PurdueMemorial StadiumBloomington IN Old Oaken Bucket W 20 1748 466 Non conference game nbsp HomecomingRankings from AP Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time 3 4 5 6 Game summaries editPurdue edit Doug Smith kicked the go ahead 39 yard field goal with 8 30 left in the game and Indiana s defense stopped two ensuing Purdue drives with interceptions to preserve the victory 7 Roster editWR Duane Gunn QB Babe Laufenberg Jr References edit a b c 1981 Big Ten Conference Year Summary SR College Football Sports Reference LLC Retrieved November 19 2016 Syracuse runs past Indiana The News Press Fort Myers Florida Associated Press September 27 1981 p 7C Retrieved December 28 2023 via Newspapers com nbsp 1981 Indiana Hoosiers Schedule and Results College Football Sports Reference com Sports Reference Retrieved December 28 2023 1981 Football Schedule Indiana University Retrieved December 28 2023 Indiana Football 2023 Record Book PDF Indiana University p 15 Retrieved December 28 2023 1981 Homecoming Indiana Arbutus yearboook Archived from the original on August 14 2017 Retrieved October 14 2015 Eugene Register Guard 1981 Nov 22 Retrieved 2018 Dec 12 nbsp This college football 1980s season article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1981 Indiana Hoosiers football team amp oldid 1211869989, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,