January 1, 1968, ushered in one of the most chaotic and consequential years in American history and it’s oddly fitting that the year began with an out-of-the-ordinary event taking place in California. A Hailey’s Comet-like oddity that when you think about it, doesn’t make sense considering what came beforehand and what came afterwards.
The Indiana Hoosiers participated in the Rose Bowl. Yes, that really happened.
Indiana football was known as a historical loser well before the 1967 season and never came close to sniffing the Big Ten’s postseason destiny of a trip to Pasadena. Beginning in 1947, the Big Ten (then Big Nine) and Pacific Coast Conference came to an agreement
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