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1943 Iowa Hawkeyes football
1943 Iowa Hawkeyes football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	1–6–1 (0–4–1 Big Ten)
Head coach	Slip Madigan (1st season);
MVP	Robert Liddy
Captain	Robert Liddy, William Barbour
Home stadium	Iowa Stadium
	Seasons ← 1942 1944 →

1943 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 5 Purdue +	6	–	0	–	0	9	–	0	–	0
No. 3 Michigan +	6	–	0	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Northwestern	5	–	1	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Indiana	2	–	3	–	1	4	–	4	–	2
Minnesota	2	–	3	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Illinois	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Ohio State	1	–	4	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Wisconsin	1	–	6	–	0	1	–	9	–	0
Iowa	0	–	4	–	1	1	–	6	–	1

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1943 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Slip Madigan's first season as head coach for the Hawkeyes.

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Iowa ranked 34th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 90.2.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	at Great Lakes Navy*	Ross Field North Chicago, IL	L 7–21		^[2]
October 2	Wisconsin	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA (rivalry)	L 5–7
October 9	No. 8 Iowa Pre-Flight*	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA	L 0–25	10,000	^[3]
October 16	Indiana	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA	T 7–7
October 23	at No. 4 Purdue	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	L 7–28	15,000
November 6	Illinois	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA	L 10–19	11,000
November 13	at Minnesota	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN (rivalry)	L 14–33	20,000
November 20	at Nebraska*	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE (rivalry)	W 33–13
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game