No Regrets: 1955 Football Team United in Turning Down Tangerine Bowl Bid

No Regrets: 1955 Football Team United in Turning Down Tangerine Bowl Bid

Written by Doug Goodnough Seventy years is a long time. But Dave Trippett, ’58, still remembers. He was a standout player on a standout team, one that became legendary more for what it did off the field than on. And that’s saying something. The 1955 Hillsdale College football team finished the regular season 9-0 and dominated the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. In fact, the Dales were being considered for a New Year’s Day bowl game…