1951 Michigan State Normal Hurons football | |
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Conference | Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Record | 4–5 (2–4 IIAC) |
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Captain | Kenneth H. Wegner |
Home stadium | Briggs Field |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Illinois State | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Western Illinois | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Central Michigan | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastern Illinois | 2 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 4 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michigan State Normal | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illinois State Normal | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern Illinois | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1951 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) in the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1951 college football season. In their third and final season under head coach Harry Ockerman, the Hurons compiled a 4–5 record (2–4 against IIAC opponents) and outscored their opponents, 186 to 183. [1] Kenneth H. Wegner was the team captain. [2] Vaskin Badalow, Nick Manych and Mike Orend were selected as first-team players on the All-IIAC team. [3]
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 22 | Hope * |
| W 20–7 | [4] | |||
September 29 | Kalamazoo * |
| W 20–6 | ||||
October 6 | at Eastern Illinois |
| L 12–19 | [5] | |||
October 13 | at Northern Illinois State | L 21–35 | [6] | ||||
October 20 | Central Michigan ![]() |
| L 13–19 | [7] | |||
October 27 | at Western Illinois | L 28–63 | [8] | ||||
November 3 | Illinois State Normal |
| W 12–0 | [9] | |||
November 10 | Southern Illinois |
| W 47–7 | [10] | |||
November 17 | at Wayne * | L 13–27 | 2,347 | [11] | |||
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