1961 Indiana Hoosiers football team

1961 Indiana Hoosiers football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	2–7 (0–6 Big Ten)
Head coach	Phil Dickens (4th season)
MVP	Byron Broome
Home stadium	Seventeenth Street Stadium (capacity: 48,344)

1961 Big Ten Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 2 Ohio State $	6	–	0	–	0			8	–	0	–	1
No. 6 Minnesota	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
No. 8 Michigan State	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
No. 12 Purdue	4	–	2	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Wisconsin	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Michigan	3	–	3	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Iowa	2	–	4	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Northwestern	2	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
Indiana	0	–	6	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
Illinois	0	–	7	–	0			0	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1961 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1961 Big Ten Conference football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Seventeenth Street Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Phil Dickens, in his fourth year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 23	at Kansas State*	Memorial Stadium Manhattan, KS	L 8–14	7,800
October 7	Wisconsin	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 3–6	23,270
October 14	at No. 2 Iowa	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA	L 8–27
October 21	Washington State*	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN	W 33–7	23,307
October 28	at No. 1 Michigan State	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI (rivalry)	L 0–35	55,361
November 4	at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	L 8–14
November 11	No. 3 Ohio State	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 7–16	27,108
November 18	at West Virginia*	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, WV	W 17–9
November 25	Purdue	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN (Old Oaken Bucket)	L 12–34	36,000
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game