The1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented theIndiana Hoosiers in the1971 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games atSeventeenth Street Stadium inBloomington, Indiana. The team was coached byJohn Pont, in his seventh year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	atMinnesota	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	L 0–28	28,549	[1][2]
September 18	Kentucky*	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN (rivalry)	W 26–8	41,954	[3]
September 25	atBaylor*	Baylor Stadium Waco, TX	L 0–10	27,500	[4][5]
October 2	Syracuse*	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 0–7	31,989	[6]
October 9	atWisconsin	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L 29–35	66,156	[7]
October 16	No. 13Ohio State	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 7–27	50,812	[8]
October 23	Northwestern	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 10–24	32,409	[9]
October 30	at No. 3Michigan	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	L 7–61	75,751	[10]
November 6	Illinois	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN (rivalry)	L 21–22	23,018	[11]
November 13	atIowa	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA	W 14–7	42,102	[12]
November 20	Purdue	Seventeenth Street Stadium Bloomington, IN (Old Oaken Bucket)	W 38–31	50,978	[13]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings fromAP Poll released prior to the game

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The first known occurrence of aone-point safety (conversion safety) was in anNCAA game on October 2, 1971, scored bySyracuse in the first quarter of a game at Indiana. On a point-after-touchdown kick, the ball was kicked almost straight up in the air. An Indiana player illegally batted the ball in the end zone (a spot foul defensive penalty). Syracuse won the game, 7–0.^[19][20][21] The 1970 rulebook (Rule 8-5-3) stated, "If a scrimmage kick fails to cross the neutral zone, or crosses the neutral zone and is first touched by Team B, or is untouched and then rebounds into the end zone where it is recovered by Team A, it is a safety," and (8-5-4) "If the penalty for a foul committed when the ball is free leaves the ball behind a goal line, it is a safety if behind the offender's goal line."^[22]

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