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1955 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

The 1955 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1955 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 7–2 record.

1955 Ohio State Buckeyes football
Big Ten champion
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 5
APNo. 5
Record7–2 (6–0 Big Ten)
Head coach
MVPHoward Cassady
CaptainFran Machinsky, Ken Vargo
Home stadiumOhio Stadium
Seasons
← 1954
1956 →
1955 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Ohio State $ 6 – 0 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
No. 2 Michigan State 5 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
No. 12 Michigan 5 – 2 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Purdue 4 – 2 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Illinois 3 – 3 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Wisconsin 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Iowa 2 – 3 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
Minnesota 2 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Indiana 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Northwestern 0 – 6 – 1 0 – 8 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule edit

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Nebraska*No. 6
W 28–2080,171
October 1at Stanford*No. 8
L 0–628,000
October 8Illinois
W 27–1282,407
October 15No. 11 Duke*No. 14
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
L 14–2082,254[1]
October 22at No. 15 Wisconsin
W 26–1653,529
October 29NorthwesternNo. 15
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
W 49–082,214
November 5IndianaNo. 11
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
W 20–1380,730
November 12No. 20 IowaNo. 10
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
W 20–1082,701
November 19at No. 6 MichiganNo. 9
W 17–097,369
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Game summaries edit

Nebraska edit

Stanford edit

Illinois edit

Duke edit

Wisconsin edit

Northwestern edit

Indiana edit

Iowa edit

Michigan edit

Coaching staff edit

Awards and honors edit

Trivia edit

  • The November 12 game against Iowa was mentioned in the movie Back to the Future Part II. A radio announcer telling the scores of the day's games mentions that Ohio State beat Iowa 20-10.

1956 NFL draftees edit

Player Round Pick Position NFL club
Howard Cassady 1 3 Halfback Detroit Lions
Fran Machinsky 4 41 Tackle Washington Redskins
Ken Vargo 9 106 Center Chicago Bears
Jerry Harkrader 22 261 Back New York Giants

References edit

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