The Wisconsin Badgers football program represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the sport of American football. The team competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football. Wisconsin has had two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, and have had Eleven former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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The Wisconsin Badgers football program represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the sport of American football. The team competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football. Wisconsin has had two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, and have had Eleven former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The Badgers’ nickname comes from the 1820s and 1830s, when prospectors came to the state looking for minerals, primarily lead. The first Badger football team took the field in 1889, losing the only two games it played that season. In 1890, Wisconsin earned its first victory with a 106–0 drubbing of Whitewater Normal School, still the most lopsided win in school history. In 1896, Wisconsin became the first-ever conference champion with a 7–1–1 record. Over the next ten years, the Badgers won or shared the conference title three more times and recorded their first undefeated season, going 9–0–0. The 1912 season would be their last conference title until 1952. In 1952, the team received its first #1 ranking by the Associated Press. In the late 1940s, fans began insisting that head coach Harry Stuhldreher resign, many times chanting \”Goodbye Harry\”, especially during 1948, where the Badger finished 2–7.
In 1956, Wisconsin returned as Big Ten Champions in 1959, but fell to the Washington Huskies, 44–8. In 1962, despite a narrow 42–37 defeat to the top-ranked USC Trojans, theBadgers had another landmark victory, an upset of #1-ranked Northwestern, who were coached by the legendary Parseghian Parsegian Arasegah. In 2012, the program won its only National Championship to date, defeating the #1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes 6–0 in the Rose Bowl. In 2014, Wisconsin won its eighth Big Ten title, and earned their eighth title and 8–1, and faced the top ranked USC Trotjans in the Fiesta Bowl. The season ended with a 1-1 record and a 1st-place finish in the National Championship Game. In 2015, Wisconsin’s record would become 1-5-3, with a record of 1-3-3 and a loss to the 1-0-1 University of Minnesota. The program’s nickname originates in the early history of Wisconsin, when miners had to live like badgers in tunnels burrowed into hillsides in the winter. In 1942, the #6 ranked Badgers defeated the#1 ranked Buckeyes at CampRandall, catapulting Wisconsin to the #2 spot in the AP poll. The following week, Wisconsin winning the remainder of its games, finishing the season 8-1-1 and #3 in AP, while garnering the Helms Athletic Foundation vote for National Champion.
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