1968 Wisconsin Badgers football team

The1968 Wisconsin Badgers football teamrepresented theUniversity of Wisconsinin the1968 Big Ten Conference football season.Led by second-year head coachJohn Coatta,the Badgers compiled an overall record of 0–10 with a mark of 0–7 in conference play, placing last out of ten teams in the Big Ten. Wisconsin played home games atCamp Randall StadiuminMadison, Wisconsin.

1968 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No.1Ohio State$	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	0	–	0
No.12Michigan	6	–	1	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
No.10Purdue	5	–	2	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
Minnesota	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Indiana	4	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Iowa	4	–	3	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Michigan State	2	–	5	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Illinois	1	–	6	–	0	1	–	9	–	0
Northwestern	1	–	6	–	0	1	–	9	–	0
Wisconsin	0	–	7	–	0	0	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings fromAP Poll

This was the first season ofartificial turfat Camp Randall Stadium;^[1]^[2]theTartanTurf home opener was againstWashingtonof thePacific-8 Conference,^[3]who had just installedAstroTurfat theirHusky StadiuminSeattle.^[4]Outside of these two, the only other University Division venues with synthetic turf in 1968 were theAstrodome(Houston) andNeyland Stadium(Tennessee).

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21	atArizona State*	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ	L7–55	43,317
September 28	Washington*	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L17–21	42,965	^[5]
October 5	No. 19Michigan State	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L0–39	49,067
October 12	Utah State*	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L0–20	37,469
October 19	atIowa	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA(rivalry)	L0–41	45,651
October 26	atNorthwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	L10–13	33,133
November 2	Indiana	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L20–21	51,666
November 9	No. 2Ohio State	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L8–43	40,972
November 16	at No. 4Michigan	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	L9–34	51,117
November 23	Minnesota	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI (Paul Bunyan's Axe)	L15–23	39,214
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings fromAP Pollreleased prior to the game

1968 Wisconsin Badgers football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
RB	`36`	Joe Dawkins	Jr
OT	`70`	Mike McClish
WR	`18`	Tom McCauley	Sr
QB	`15`	John Ryan	Sr
TE	`40`	Stu Voigt	Jr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
LB	`33`	Ken Criter	Sr
DT	`73`	Jim DeLisle	So
DT	`76`	Bill Gregory	So
DT	`57`	Jim Novak	Sr
LB	`35`	Chuck Winfrey	So
DB	`30`	George McGarrett

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Two Wisconsin Badgers were selected in the1969 NFL/AFL draft,which lasted 17 rounds with 442 selections.

^"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.
^"Washington turns back Wisconsin's rally 21–17".The La Crosse Tribune.September 29, 1968.RetrievedSeptember 14,2024– viaNewspapers.
^"1969 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference".Archived fromthe originalon December 21, 2007.