"Compared to our other Big Ten road games, UCLA has far and away the biggest level of interest among our fans right now," said Mike Wierzbicki, the Minnesota senior associate athletics director for external affairs who expects at least 10,000 Golden Gophers fans to attend the game on Oct. 12.
"We have a very thin group of guys who are still around," said Harry Gonso, the Hoosiers' quarterback that day 56 years ago, "if you understand what I mean."
"It's amazing how many people are already making plans to go out there," Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz said this summer.
"I casually said, 'No, I won't go this time - they go every year,'" Mona said, "having no idea that it would be more than 50 years later before they would be back."
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